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BANCROFT    LIBRAFY 


31* 


,  .SKETCH  ES 

OF  THE 

Inter -Mountain  States 

TOGETHER  WITH  BIOGRAPHIES  OF  MANY  PROMINENT  AND 
PROGRESSIVE    CITIZENS    WHO    HAVE    HELPED  IN 
THE    DEVELOPMENT    AND    HISTORY- 
MAKING    OF    THIS    MARVELOUS 
REGION 


1847  1909 

Utah  .  Idaho 

Nevada 


ILLUSTRATED 


Published  by 

THE    SALT    LAKE    TRIBUNE 

Salt  Lake  City,   Utah 
1909 


Copyrighted  by 

SALT  LAKE  TRIBUNE  PUB.  CO. 
1909 


NOTE. — No  copyright  restrictions  will  be  urged  against  newspapers  or  magazines  in  the 
United  States,  and  they  are  hereby  waived,  except  as  to  the  reproduction  of  the  frontispiece. 

THE  PUBLISHERS. 


//***• 

Bancroft  Library 


A  WORD  IN  ADVANCE 

The  purpose  of  this  volume,  primarily,  is  to  lay  before  the  leading 
newspaper  publishers  of  the  United  States  some  facts  concerning  many 
of  the  leading  men  who  are,  or  have  been,  active  in  the  work  of  develop- 
ing the  States  of  Utah,  Idaho  and  Nevada.  It  is  believed  that  the 
material  herewith  will  be  highly  valuable  to  every  newspaper  of  con- 
sequence in  the  United  States,  and  that  the  value  thereof  will  increase 
with  each  succeeding  year. 

Copies  will  also  be  placed  in  the  library  cars  of  limited  trains  that 
are  used  in  Western  traffic  as  a  guide  to  those  who  seek  investment  or 
who  contemplate  a  change  of  residence.  The  leading  boards  of  trade 
and  public  libraries  will  also*  be  supplied  with  copies,  as  will  a  number 
of  great  commercial  agencies  in  the  United  States,  England  and  France. 

A  special  effort  has  been  made  to  eliminate  any  and  all  matter 
in  reference  to  the  peculiar  local  contentions,  and  it  is  for  this  reason 
that  the  publishers  have  refrained  from  presenting  even  the  briefest 
sketch  of  the  State  of  Utah,  which,  as  is  generally  known,  has  been  a 
storm  center  for  the  entire  inter-mountain  region. 

THE  PUBLISHERS. 


HE  story  of  Utah  is  a  story  of 
pioneer  effort,  personal  suffer- 
ing and  sacrifice,  political  and 
religious  struggles  the  like  of 
which  no  American  State  has 
witnessed,  barriers  broken 
down,  marvelous  progress  and 
permanent  successes.  The  development  of  no 
State  has  been  hampered  by  greater  obstacles, 
but  the  credit  for  the  great  work  accom- 
plished, as  the  years  roll  by  and  men  deal 
toward  each  other  with  more  fairness,  is 
distributed  where  it  rightfully  belongs— with 
the  progressive  men  of  the  old  days  as  well 
as  to  the  enterprising  ones  of  the  new. 

There  is  no  proper  place  in  this  publica- 
tion for  a  recital  of  the  bitter  strife  between 
the  "Saints"  and  the  "Gentiles."  In  the 
upbuilding  of  Utah  commercially  the  fanati- 
cism of  neither  party  works  a  helpful  part. 
Mormon  and  non-Mormon  have  learned  some 
expensive  lessons  in  the  past,  and  each,  with 
increasing  enthusiasm,  joins  the  other  in 
bringing  into  use  the  remarkable  resources 
of  this  splendid  State. 

Utah  was  settled  in  1847.  It  matters  not 
to  the  present  age  and  to  Utah's  future  great- 
ness whether  Brigham  Young  and  his  hardy 
followers  were  directed  to  the  Salt  Lake  val- 
ley by  divine  revelation  or  located  here  by 
chance.  They  came,  they  toiled;  their  settle- 
ment attracted  many  of  their  faith,  and  many 
more  who  did  not  accept  that  faith.  A  fine 


city  was  established,  a  Territory  was  organized,  the  mountain  streams 
were  diverted  from  nature's  causeways,  enlivening  the  soil  of  the  arid 
valleys,  awakening  interest  in  agricultural  pursuits,  while  the  moun- 
tains themselves  were  made  to  yield  a  part  of  their  fabulous  wealth. 

This  generation  is  enjoying  those  early  efforts.  The  men  and 
women  of  to-day  are  perfecting  the  work  begun  by  the  men  and  women 
of  yesterday.  And  so  accommodating  is  Nature  that  all  who  call  find 
ample  means,  if  not  abundance,  the  reward  of  their  industry. 

Utah  became  a  State  in  1895.  Her  prestige  has  grown  in  a  more 
marked  degree  from  that  date  than  throughout  all  the  years  before. 
Cities  have  sprung  up,  valleys  have  been  dotted  with  countless  homes, 
the  rock-ribbed  hills  have  been  probed  for  the  riches  within.  Capital 
has  found  its  way  into  every  section  of  the  State  and  has  been  profit- 
ably employed.  New  population  in  a  continuous  stream  pours  into 
Utah,  adding  wealth  and  bettering  the  condition  of  all. 

A  more  healthful  section  has  not  been  found.  Neither  is  there  a 
State  where  greater  attention  is  given  to  education  than  here.  The  per- 
centage of  illiteracy  is  remarkably  low.  All  religions  are  represented. 

Utah  contains  87,750  square  miles.  About  one-third  the  area  is 
capable  of  cultivation,  or  is  a  range  for  sheep  and  cattle.  Probably 
three-fifths  of  the  area  is  occupied  by  mountain  ranges,  filled  with 
precious  metals,  coal,  salt,  iron  and  building  materials.  The  remainder 
is  arid. 

Great  though  the  total  of  the  mineral  product  is  in  Utah,  the 
product  of  the  farms,  orchards  and  ranges  is  greater,  and  the  annual 
increase  of  the  irrigated  area  of  the  State  promises  to  keep  pace  with 
the  swift  development  of  the  mines.  Utah  promises  to  become  one  of 
the  greatest  fruit-growing  States  in  the  Union. 

There  are  opportunities  for  all  in  Utah. 


BITS  OF  INFORMATION 

Utah  mines  have  paid  a  little  more  than  $80,000,000  in  dividends. 

There  are  2,135,000  acres  of  land  under  irrigation,  with  10,000,000 
more  that  may  be  irrigated.  About  two-thirds  of  Utah's  population 
engages  in  agriculture. 

Utah  produces  annually  about  265,000  barrels  of  salt. 

There  are  7,424,792  acres  of  national  forest  in  Utah;  and  for  the 
year  ending  July  1,  1908,  they  brought  $32,152  cash  returns. 

There  are  8,000  miles  of  public  roads  in  Utah;  3,000  of  them  in 
the  mountains. 


Population  of  Salt  Lake   City,  1908,  according  to  E.  L.  Polk  & 
Company,  112,346. 

Salt  Lake  City  streets  are  132  feet  wide. 

The  building  front  of  each  block  is  660  feet. 

No  congestion,  no  darkness. 

Business  street  surface  all  asphalt— no  cobbles. 

Salt  Lake  has  150.054  miles  of  paved  sidewalks  and  50  miles  more 
are  being  constructed. 

Area  of  Salt  Lake  City  (including  reservation),  sq.  miles  47 

Miles  of  streets 330 

Miles  of  streets  graded,  311.35 ;  and  paved,  18.65  .      .      .  330 

Railroads    entering    city 6 

Miles  electric  street  railway 105 

Miles  public  sewers 106 

Miles    gas    mains 90 

Miles  water  mains  laid 167 

Capacity  of  water  supply  per  day  (av.),  gals 39,000,000 

Electric   street  lights 663 

Daily   newspapers 5 

Church    bodies 15 

Church    buildings 44 

Volumes  in  free  public  library,  January  1,  1909  .      .      .  33,140 

Acres  in  Liberty  Park 100 

Acres  in  Pioneer  Park 10 

Thermal  and  mineral  springs 4 

Public    schools 27 

Teachers  in  public  schools 464 

School   population 20,114 

Per  cent,  in  attendance 94.2 

Value  of  school  property $1,461,897 

Cost  of  City  and  County  Building $955,000 

Cost  of  Mormon  Temple $1,326,241 

Annual  death  rate  per  thousand 13 

Tax  rate,  State 5 

Tax  rate.  State  school 3 

Tax  rate,  city,  mills 13 

Tax  rate,  city  schools,  mills 9 

Tax    rate,    county 4.5 

Tax  rate,  county  schools 2.5 

Tax  rate,  State,  city  and  county,  total  mills 37 

Assessed  value  Salt  Lake  City's  real  and  personal  property  $48,896,349 


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PROGRESSIVE  AND  BEAUTIFUL  SALT  LAKE  CITY 

BY  C.  C.  GOODWIN 

Progress  is  in  the  very  air  of  Salt  Lake.  Solomon's  Temple  arose 
without  the  sound  of  axe  or  hammer  in  its  immediate  vicinity,  but  it 
was  seven  years  in  building  and  a  longer  time  in  preparation.  Salt 
Lake  can  beat  Solomon's  Temple  now,  and  were  it  planted  here  in  all 
its  pristine  splendor,  it  would  be  voted  a  squatty  affair.  And  where 
now  there  are  unsightly  structures,  in  a  year's  time  there  will  be 
palaces,  which  by  comparison  would  make  that  temple  of  Solomon's 
look  like  a  bungalow. 

We  are  speaking,  thus  far,  only  of  the  grand  edifices,  those  of  marble 
and  onyx  and  woven  steel,  but  they  are  not  the  strength  or  promise  of 
Salt  Lake's  future  greatness,  they  are  but  evidences  of  a  greatness 
already  here,  for  such  structures  can  only  exist  where  the  hosts  outside 
are  working  for  the  wealth  that  makes  the  work  of  the  few  possible. 

Go  outside ;  on  every  street  there  will  be  heard  the  ring  of  hammers, 
the  rhythm  of  saw  and  trowel;  the  hurry,  hurry  to  prepare  for  those 
here,  and  for  those  who  are  coming. 

And  why  not !    Commerce  and  trade  have  made  this  a  central  station. 

Education  has  made  this  a  central  seat. 

Music  has  reserved  this  place  for  her  divine  harmonies. 

This  is  the  spot  to  which  the  sullen  mountains  send  their  treasures 
to  have  them  transfigured.  Here  is  where  the  sunlight  and  the  pure 
air  make  a  natural  sanitarium. 

Here  is  where  all  creeds  meet  to  wrestle  and  decide  which  is  serving 
best  men  below  and  Omnipotent  above. 

Here  is  where  nature  fixed  her  perfect  bathing  resorts,  and  the  city 
cannot  keep  up  with  the  demand  for  homes  and  business  places. 

Then,  after  all,  the  city  does  not  compare  as  yet  with  its  surround- 
ings. In  the  long  ago  some  vagrant  artists  from  summerland  strayed 
away,  bringing  with  them  some  of  the  dyes  which  they  use  above  and 
which  are  immortal:  Being  dusty  through  travel  when  they  found 
Great  Salt  Lake  they  determined  upon  si  bath. 

They  laid  down  their  paints  and  brushes,  folded  their  wings  and 
dove  into  the  clear  waters.  At  first  the  salt  got  in  their  eyes  and  throats, 
but  they  took  in  the  situation  quickly,  and  it  was  close  upon  sunset 
when  they  came  out  radiant,  their  wings  once  more  as  white  as  when 
they  left  Paradise,  and  their  appetites  were  renewed.  They  had 
brought  along  a  few  pint  bottles,  but  it  was  then  as  it  is  now,  they 
could  not  get  a  cracker  or  a  piece  of  cheese  on  Sunday  in  any  "public 
place"  in  Zion  and  that  time  the  places  were  all  public. 

But  their  bottles  helped  them  out. 

Just  then  the  setting  sun  hung  over  the  desert  to  the  west  and  its 
refracted  rays  turned  the  snow  on  the  Wasatch  to  purple  and  gold, 
even  after  the  sun  had  disappeared.  And  these  visitors,  enchanted, 
seized  their  brushes  and  dipping  them  in  the  immortal  dyes  painted  the 
mountains,  the  lake,  the  valley;  and  the  picture  they  made  lingers  still 
and  makes  this  a  place  of  enchantment,  and  when  it  shall  be  a  little 
more  seen  the  whole  world  will  want  to  come  and  make  a  home  here. 

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MINING  AND  ITS  SUCCESSES 
BY  HORACE  DUNBAR 

Contained  within  the  States  of  Utah,  Idaho  and  Nevada  is  a  vast 
mineral  empire,  whose  resources,  imperfectly  demonstrated  as  they  are 
in  proportion  to  the  possibilities,  are  as  abundant  and  varied  as  could 
be  found  in  any  three  of  the  richest  and  more  thoroughly  developed 
States  of  the  Union. 

Although  mining  has  been  carried  on  in  these  three  States  for  many 
years,  there  was  an  extremely  wide  field  to  be  covered,  and  it  was  a 
field  which  sorely  tried,  but  never  daunted,  the  hardy  pioneer.  Lack  of 
proper  transportation  facilities,  of  adequate  mine  equipment,  of  a  ready 
market  for  the  product  of  the  mines  and  the  doleful  scarcity  of  nature's 
great  boons  to  mankind— food  and  water — all  have  combined  to  retard 
the  proper  exploitation  of  this  immense  storehouse  of  mineral  wealth. 
And  even  at  this  late  day,  when  one  wonders  if  there  really  is  any  pio- 
neering possible  in  the  West,  a  person  does  not  need  to  go  far  beyond  the 
railroad  tracks  to  find  himself  in  a  wilderness  of  opportunity  untouched 
and  unclaimed  by  the  hand  of  man,  and  equally  in  a  wilderness  where 
all  the  comforts  of  life  are  wanting. 

Gold,  silver,  copper  and  lead  comprise  the  main  mineral  produc- 
tion of  Utah,  Idaho  and  Nevada.  In  the  early  days  Nevada  was  dotted 
from  one  end  to  another  with  silver  camps.  Utah  witnessed  the  climb  and 
fall  of  innumerable  gold  and  silver  districts  which  had  made  most 
honorable  history  for  the  "West,  and  Idaho  as  well  has  suffered  in  many 
spots  from  declines  in  mining.  The  hardships  of  early  mining  were 
responsible  for  this.  There  are  numerous  camps  of  the  West  holding 
mining  properties  equipped  with  extensive  and  expensive  machinery. 
Much  of  this  machinery  was  brought  round  the  Horn  by  sailing  vessels, 
thence  transported  across  the  deserts  by  ox  teams  at  a  cost  of  eight 
cents  per  pound.  The  nearest  smelter  was  in  Swansea,  Wales,  and 
quite  naturally  only  the  highest  grade  ore  could  be  mined  and  marketed. 
When  silver  began  receiving  death  blows  at  the  hands  of  the  govern- 
ments of  the  world  all  the  famous  camps  were  abandoned,  and  not  until 
recent  years  has  capital  entered  into  what  at  one  time  were  scenes  of 
extensive  mining  operations  which  were  productive  of  countless 
millions  of  dollars,  which  formed  the  foundation  for  the  majority  of 
the  greatest  fortunes  of  the  United  States. 

On  investigation  it  was  found  that  all  the  old  camps  were  teeming 
with  ores  developed  by  the  early  operators,  but  whose  comparatively 
modest  metallic  contents  precluded  sale  under  former  conditions. 
Modern  metallurgical  knowledge  and  newly  installed  reduction  works 
brought  these  resources  into  instant  availability,  and  the  rejuvenation 
of  abandoned  camps  began  on  all  sides.  The  early  operator  also  recog- 
nized only  a  few  formations  which  he  knew  were  productive  of  the  sort 
of  mineral  results  he  desired.  To-day  geological  formations  which  he 

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•despised  are  producing  returns  which  surpass  results  the  old-timer 
achieved. 

Instead  of  equipping  individual  mines  with  their  own  reduction 
works,  capital  wisely  centered  its  energies  on  selecting  a  central  point 
where  smelting  operations  could  be  carried  on  in  a  manner  equally 
beneficial  to  all.  This  policy  gave  to  Salt  Lake  City  the  distinction  of 
being  the  smelting  center  of  the  United  States.  Within  sight  of  the 
•city  the  American  Smelting  and  Refining  Company,  the  United  States 
.Smelting,  Refining  and  Mining  Company,  the  Utah  Consolidated  Com- 
pany, the  Bingham  Consolidated  Company,  and  the  Yampa  Company, 
all  were  operating  smelting  plants  up  to  1907. 

In  answer  to  litigation  instigated  by  the  farming  element  in  the  Salt 
Lake  valley,  the  courts  closed  practically  all  these  plants  late  in  the 
year  mentioned.  It  was  asserted  that  the  fumes  from  the  stacks 
destroyed  vegetation  and  animal  life.  This  necessitated  improved 
devices  to  prevent  smelting  operations  from  injuring  the  surrounding 
farm  usefulness,  and  right  successfully  have  the  smelting  companies 
met  the  issue.  Out  of  the  wrecks  have  risen  new  smelters,  until  to-day, 
early  in  1909,  the  American  Company  at  Murray  is  operating  a  lead- 
silver  smelter,  and  one  of  the  greatest  copper  smelters  in  the  world  at 
Garfield,  on  the  shores  of  the  Great  Salt  Lake,  near  Salt  Lake  City. 
The  United  States  Company  is  smelting  silver  and  lead  ores  at  Bingham 
Junction.  The  Yampa  Company  is  treating  its  own  ores  at  Bingham, 
and  in  Tooele  County,  near  the  Great  Salt  Lake,  the  International 
Smelting  and  Refining  Company  is  spending  millions  of  dollars  in 
rushing  to  completion  one  of  the  largest  and  most  modern  copper  smel- 
ters in  the  world.  In  addition,  there  is  a  silver-lead-copper  smelter  in 
Tintic,  Utah,  and  a  copper  smelter  at  Ogden. 

Among  the  old  camps  once  famous,  and  now  revived  to  tremendous 
activity  and  success  are  Bingham,  Utah,  and  Ely,  Nevada,  both  copper 
camps  of  magnitude.  In  each  camp  huge  mountains  of  low-grade 
copper  ore  are  being  eaten  down  by  scores  of  steam  shovels,  the  ore 
being  hurried  via  special  railroad  lines  to  mammoth  concentrating 
plants,  where  the  low-grade  porphyry  ore  is  concentrated  to  a  grade 
which  admits  of  profitable  smelting.  Pioche,  Nevada,  a  one-time  richly 
productive  silver-lead  camp,  to-day  is  answering  the  call  of  capital  with 
splendid  ore  developments,  while  in  all  the  three  States  new  camps 
spring  up  from  day  to  day,  which  illustrates  how  imperfectly  the  field 
has  been  covered. 

Idaho  stands  out  distinctively  as  one  of  the  great  lead-producing 
States  of  the  Union,  the  Coeur  d'Alene  district  being  the  most  famed 
lead  camp  in  the  world.  Unlike  most  lead  camps,  whose  heavy  metal 
values  give  way  at  depth  to  copper  or  some  other  metal,  nothing  but 
lead,  and  in  ever  increasing  quantities,  has  been  found  with  the  deepest 
of  work.  Nevada  during  the  past  five  years  has  astonished  the  world 
with  its  discoveries  of  new  gold  fields,  following  closely  on  which  finds 
have  been  the  extensive  and  successful  development  of  silver,  lead  and 
copper  camps. 

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The  following  statistics  will  show  the  mineral  standing  of  the  three 
States,  the  figures  being  taken  from  the  year  1907,  owing  to  the  incom- 
plete statistical  record  for  1908: 

In  1907  Utah  stood  fifth  in  rank  of  the  gold-producing  States  of  the 
Union,  producing  247,758  ounces— value,  $5,121,600;  second  in  silver 
production,  with  an  output  of  11,406,900  ounces— value,  $7,528,500; 
third  in  lead  production,  with  an  output  of  54,738  tons ;  fourth  in  copper, 
with  an  output  of  68,333,115  pounds. 

Idaho  ranked  ninth  in  gold,  with  an  output  of  60,754  ounces— value, 
$1,255,900;  fifth  in  silver,  with  an  output  of  7,888,400  ounces— value, 
$5,206,300;  second  in  lead,  with  an  output  of  111,697  tons;  seventh  in 
copper,  with  an  output  of  11,471,101  pounds. 

Nevada  ranks  fourth  in  gold,  with  an  output  of  745,507  ounces— 
value,  $15,411,000 ;  fourth  in  silver,  with  an  output  of  8,280,500  ounces 
-value,  $5,465,100 ;  sixth  in  lead,  with  an  output  of  3,400  tons ;  eleventh 
in  copper,  with  an  output  of  1,462,450  pounds. 

The  first  large,  low-grade,  low-cost  copper  producer  of  Utah  to 
emphasize  its  merits  by  entering  the  dividend-paying  column  was  the 
Utah  Copper  Company  of  Bingham.  Following  closely  on  its  heels  is 
the  Boston  Consolidated  Company,  with  the  Ohio  Copper  Company  on 
the  verge  of  operations  in  its  new  milling  plant.  These  great  mines  are 
just  coming  into  their  own,  and  the  year  1909  should  find  the  copper 
output  for  Utah  reaching  well  above  the  100,000,000-pound  mark. 
Throughout  the  State  are  numerous  new  copper  camps  which  are 
developing  fast,  and  vast  sections  are  known  to  exist  where  nothing  but 
the  wise  application  of  capital  will  open  red  metal  mines  of  magnitude. 

In  Ely,  Nevada  has  one  of  the  mammoth  low-grade  copper  camps  of 
the  world,  and  gigantic  concentrating  plants  and  smelters  near  the 
mines  are  now  in  highly  successful  operation.  The  next  extensive 
copper  camp  of  Nevada  is  known  as  the  Yerington  District,  but  legally 
named  the  Mason  Mining  District.  Yerington,  unlike  Bingham  and 
Ely,  contains  straight  smelting  copper  ores  which  require  no  prelim- 
inary treatment  before  they  are  fit  for  the  smelter  furnaces.  This 
dispenses  with  the  installation  of  expensive  concentrating  mills,  taking 
less  capital  to  reach  the  coveted  goal  of  production.  Other  copper 
sections  of  Nevada  are  being  brought  prominently  to  the  attention  of 
the  world,  and  that  there  are  other  Elys  and  Binghams  in  the  two  States 
is  demonstrated  by  the  liberal  expenditures  of  money  now  seen  on  all 
sides.  Recent  developments  in  heretofore  untouched  portions  of  Idaho 
prove  that  an  enormous  field  awaits  the  activities  of  the  prospector  and 
investor  in  its  mineral-ribbed  mountains.  New  railroads  and  new 
wagon  roads  continually  are  being  built  to  sections  which  once  were 
inaccessible. 

In  addition  to  their  wealth  of  mineral  deposits,  the  hills  of  Utah  are 
seamed  with  high-grade  coal,  another  undeveloped  field  which  needs 
only  the  magic  hand  of  capital  to  add  millions  each  year  to  the  output 
of  the  State.  Regarding  the  coal  deposits  of  Utah,  the  seventh  report 

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THE   NEW   KEAKNS  BUILDING^   SALT   LAKE    CITY 


of  the  Bureau  of  Statistics  of  the  State  of  Utah,  for  1907-1908,  uses 
the  following  language : 

"The  coal-mining  industry  as  reported  by  Mr.  Petitt,  State  Coal 
Mine  Inspector,  is  in  a  most  thriving  condition,  due  in  a  great  measure 
to  the  settled  labor  conditions  which  have  been  maintained  in  the 
various  mining  camps  for  the  past  few  years.  The  production  has 
increased  in  quantity  and  value  during  the  past  five  years.  There  is, 
however,  much  room  for  improvement  in  these  respects,  more  particu- 
larly when  one  considers  the  enormous  extent  of  the  coal  areas  of  the 
State. 

"The  coal  area  known  as  the  Book  Cliff  (Wasatch  field),  extend- 
ing" east  and  west  from  Castle  Dale,  in  Carbon  County,  to  the  Colorado 
line,  and  south  to  the  southeastern  part  of  Sevier  County,  covering 
approximately  1,600  square  miles,  is  considered  both  in  respect  to 
thickness  and  development  the  most  important  coal  field  in  the  State. 
Other  coal  areas  are:  The  Coalville  or  Weber  River  field  in  Summit 
County;  in  the  northeastern  portion  of  the  State,  the  Henry's  Fork  and 
A  shley  Creek  coal  area ;  large  coal  areas  in  Uintah  County ;  the  Henry 
Mountain  District,  and  in  the  southwestern  portion  of  the  State  the 
Colob  plateau,  showing  the  wide  distribution  of  coal  lands  in  the  State. ' ' 

In  eastern  Utah  lies  one  of  the  most  valuable  and  extensive  hydro- 
carbon deposits  in  the  world.  One  of  the  principal  products  from  this 
seldom-mentioned  field  is  asphaltum,  while  from  these  deposits  are  made 
paints,  mineral  rubber,  medicines  and  numerous  other  materials  which 
find  their  way  into  the  world's  commerce. 

Oil  of  the  finest  quality,  and  in  a  sufficient  quantity  to  justify  the 
expenditure  of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  annually,  is  being 
developed  in  San  Juan  County,  Utah,  while  the  Virgin  field  in  southern 
Utah  gives  promise  of  becoming  an  important  oil  center  of  the  West. 

The  "Mining  World"  of  Chicago,  in  its  issue  of  April  3,  1909,  gives 
the  names  of  forty-one  dividend-paying  mining  companies  in  Utah; 
twenty-five  in  Nevada  and  seven  in  Idaho.  In  the  Silver  King  Coalition 
Mines  Syndicate  of  Park  City,  Utah,  the  State  during  the  first  quarter 
of  1909  held  the  greatest  silver-lead  dividend-paying  company  in  this 
hemisphere.  Considerably  over  one  hundred  millions  of  dollars  have 
been  distributed  to  stockholders  in  the  shape  of  dividends  by  Utah 
mining  companies  since  any  record  was  taken,  which  excludes  close 
corporations  not  giving  to  the  world  their  profit  sharing. 

In  spite  of  the  great  production  of  the  three  States  which  compose 
this  empire,  and  in  spite  of  the  many  new  fields  continually  springing 
into  fame,  a  virgin  territory  awaits  the  man  of  money  and  brains 
within  their  boundary  lines.  New  problems  confront  the  mining  and 
metallurgical  engineer,  offering  a  remunerative  opening  for  numerous 
experts  from  year  to  year,  which  cannot  help  but  attract  the  young  and 
ambitious  the  world  over.  These  States  are  merely  in  the  bud,  and 
present  an  ideal  opportunity  for  safe  and  constant  investment. 

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This  corporation,  which  lias  its  head  offices  in  Boston  and  has  a 
capitalization  of  $75,000,000,  operates  its  various  mines,  mills  and 
smelters  under  local  titles.  Its  lead  and  copper  mines  at  Bingham, 
Utah,  are  operated  under  the  title  of  the  United  States  Mining  Com- 
pany; its  concentrator  and  lead  and  copper  smelter  at  Bingham 
Junction,  Utah,  as  the  United  States  Smelting  Company;  its  mines  at 
Eureka,  Utah,  as  the  Centennial  Eureka  Mining  Company,  and  the 
Bullion  Beck  &  Champion  Mining  Company;  its  lime  quarry  as  the 
United  States  Lime  Company,  and  its  Stores  Department  as  the  United 
States  Stores  Company.  At  its  smelting  plant  at  Bingham  Junction, 
near  Salt  Lake  City,  it  receives  custom  ores  from  all  the  inter-mountain 
States.  It  has  developed  at  this  plant  its  secret  process  for  the  handling1 
of  smelter  fumes,  so  that,  whilst  it  daily  treats  from  1200  to  2000  tons 
of  ore,  its  stacks  are  free  from  fumes  or  elements  that  are  in  any  way 
damaging  to  vegetation.  It  has  recently  made  improvements  in  its 
method  of  concentrating  ores  by  which  it  will  separate,  electro-statically, 
the  zinc  from  the  iron,  thus  effecting,  by  a  new  process,  a  large  saving 
of  zinc  that  heretofore  has  been  wasted.  In  addition  to  these  Utah 
properties,  the  United  States  Company  owns  the  Mammoth  Copper 
Mining  Co.,  which  operates  the  Mammoth  mines  and  copper  smelter  at 
Kennett,  California ;  also  the  Richmond-Eureka  Mining  Co.,  of  Eureka, 
Nevada.  Its  bullion  output  is  shipped  to  its  own  refineries  and  smelters 
at  Grasselli,  Indiana,  and  Chrome,  New  Jersey,  operating  under  the 
title  of  the  United  States  Metals  Refining  Company.  In  Mexico  the  com- 
pany operates  in  a  vast  territory,  with  mines  and  mills  at  Pachuca  and 
Real  del  Monte,  under  the  corporate  title  of  the  Compania  de  Real  del 
Monte  y  Pachuca. 

Altogether  the  United  States  Smelting,  Refining  &  Mining  Company 
has  an  up-to-date  organization  and  a  name  for  fair  dealing  with  its 
customers  that  has  resulted  in  the  development  of  an  enormous  metal 
business  which  is  constantly  expanding.  It  is  ready  with  a  competent 
field  engineering  staff  to  examine  any  and  all  mining1  properties  of 
merit  as  well  as  to  mill,  smelt,  refine  and  market  all  grades  of  ore, 
bullion,  metallurgical  products  and  metals.  Its  principal  office  is  at 
55  Congress  Street,  Boston,  Mass.,  and  its  local  office  is  located  on  the 
ninth  floor  of  the  Newhouse  Building,  Salt  Lake  City,  under  the  control 
of  Geo.  W.  Heintz,  its  general  manager  for  Utah,  etc. 


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DEEP  CREEK  MINING  DISTRICT 

Deep  Creek  is  a  mining  district  of  unsurpassed  mineral  wealth.  It  is  situ- 
ated in  the  western  part  of  Tooele  and  Juab  counties,  Utah,  and  is  about  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  miles  distant  from  Salt  Lake  City.  It  is  reached  by 
the  new  "Western  Pacific  Railway,  now  practically  completed  between  Salt  Lake 
City  and  San  Francisco,  California. 

The  most  heavily  mineralized  section  of  the  country  is  in  the  Deep  Creek 
mountains,  although  the  mines  begin  with  the  Dugway  range  and  continue 
westward  to  the  Nevada  line.  The  Deep  Creek  range  is  some  fifty  miles  in 
length  and  is  heavily  timbered  and  well  watered.  Some  of  the  higher  peaks 
have  an  elevation  of  12,000  feet. 

The  mines  of  this  region  have  been  producing  for  the  past  thirty  years,  and 
millions  of  dollars  worth  of  ore  has  been  treated  or  placed  upon  the  dumps. 
In  the  earlier  history  of  the  country,  several  small  smelters  were  operated;  but 
with  the  gradual  decline  in  the  price  of  silver,  they  were  forced  to  close.  Lead- 
silver  was  the  only  ore  treated  in  those  days,  and  little  effort  was  made  to  develop 
the  other  resources  of  the  country.  But  during  the  past  few  years,  mining 
operations  have  been  extensive,  and  some  of  the  most  remarkable  ore  bodies 
ever  opened  in  the  State  have  been  developed.  Gold,  silver,  copper,  lead,  zinc  and 
iron  have  been  found  to  exist  in  immense  quantity;  while  bismuth,  tin,  nickel, 
antimony,  tungsten  and  molybdenum  are  all  found,  particularly  in  the  north 
end  of  the  range.  This  is  the  only  section  of  Utah  where  tin  has  ever  been 
found.  A  large  body  of  bismuth-gold  ore  has  been  developed  on  the  property 
of  the  Lucy  L.  Mining  and  Milling  Company.  This  is  probably  the  only  prop- 
erty in  the  United  States  that  has  bismuth  ore  in  quantity  and  of  commercial 
value.  The  vein  is  a  very  large  one  and  is  developed  to  the  depth  of  over  three 
hundred  feet. 

The  Lucy  L.  Company  has  upon  the  same  property  a  monster  copper  vein. 
It  has  been  developed  to  the  depth  of  five  hundred  feet  and  is  two  hundred  and 
fifty  feet  in  width.  The  ore  is  mostly  a  sulphide. 

Assays  from  the  veins  of  the  Lucy  L.  mine,  from  miscellaneous  samples,  run 
from  $1.34  to  $33,365.00  gold;  from  seven  to  forty-seven  ounces  silver;  from 
twenty  to  sixty-eight  per  cent,  bismuth ;  from  two  to  twenty-seven  per  cent,  cop- 
per; from  sixteen  to  thirty-eight  per  cent,  lead;  tin,  one  and  sixty-five  hun- 
dredths  per  cent ;  nickel,  sixty-five  hundredths  per  cent. 

The  general  office  of  the  Lucy  L.  Company  is  in  Salt  Lake  City.  The  con- 
trolling interest  is  held  by  Wilson  Brothers,  Frank  L.  Wilson  and  Clyde  H. 
Wilson,  whose  interests  extend  through  forty  miles  of  the  Deep  Creek  range. 
It  has  been  largely  through  the  instrumentality  of  the  Wilson  Brothers  that  the 
Deep  Creek  section  has  been  so  extensively  developed;  and  no  one  is  more 
familiar  with  the  mineral  wealth  and  possibilities  of  that  country,  which  is  amply 
demonstrated  by  their  splendid  properties. 

The  Clifton  Copper  Belt  Mining  Company,  whose  property  is  on  the  same 
mineral  belt  and  a  mile  south  of  the  Lucy  L.,  is  in  many  respects  similar  to  the 
Lucy  L.  The  ores  are  gold,  silver,  copper,  lead,  bismuth,  tin,  nickel  and  molyb- 
denum. The  ore  bodies  most  extensively  developed  are  copper-gold  and  silver- 
lead.  Some  of  the  richest  ores  in  the  district  are  found  in  this  property.  The 
average  ore  is  of  uniformly  high  grade. 

The  Seminole  Copper  Company  adjoins  the  Clifton  Copper  Belt  on  the 
south  end  and  the  mineralization  is  practically  the  same  as  upon  the  Copper 
Belt.  The  company  owns  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  of  patented  ground  in 
the  Clifton  District.  There  is  probably  no  other  property  in  the  Deep  Creek 
section  of  greater  merit. 

The  Wilson  Consolidated  Mining  Company  has  twelve  claims,  about  two 
hundred  and  thirty  acres.  Six  of  the  claims  are  in  the  Clifton  District  and 
six  in  the  Willow  Springs  District,  adjoining  Clifton  on  the  south.  The  ores 
are  copper,  lead,  silver  and  gold,  arid  large  bodies  are  exposed. 

The  Western  Pacific  Copper  Company  is  located  in  the  higher  part  of  the 
Deep  Creek  range,  in  the  Willow  Springs  Mining  District.  The  property 
is  well  watered  and  timbered  and  is  splendidly  located  for  the  economical  extrac- 
tion of  the  large  bodies  of  ore.  This  property  has  the  distinction  of  being 
the  earliest  shipper  of  high-grade  copper  ore  from  the  Deep  Creek  country. 
The  ore  averages  thirteen  per  cent,  copper;  twenty-five  per  cent,  lead;  twenty- 
four  per  cent,  iron,  and  some  silver  and  gold.  It  is  the  most  extensively  devel- 
oped property  in  the  Willow  Springs  District. 

Since  better  transportation  facilities  are  now  offered,  the  greatest  activity 
prevails  in  the  different  districts,  and  it  is  confidently  believed  that  one  of 
the  greatest  mining  booms  in  the  history  of  the  West  is  just  beginning. 

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UTAH  FUEL  COMPANY 

Among  the  many  natural  resources  of  the  State  of  Utah  which  have 
tended  to  make  the  State  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  most  desirable 
are  its  coal  beds,  which  are  the  richest  and  largest  in  the  West.  That 
these  huge  beds  and  strata  of  coal  have  merely  been  scratched,  as  it 
were,  is  apparent,  and  that  the  coal  industry  in  this  State  will  ere  long 
become  one  of  the  biggest  propositions  in  the  State  is  generally  acknowl- 
edged by  all  those  conversant  with  the  geological  conditions  existing 
in  .the  coal  belt.  In  1882  the  Pleasant  Valley  Coal  Company  was  incor- 
porated at  a  time  when  the  magnitude  of  the  coal  belts  was  first  appre- 
ciated. This  company,  with  offices  in  Salt  Lake  City,  began  to  mine  the 
product  and  supplied  the  entire  State  with  fuel  for  both  domestic  and 
commercial  purposes. 

In  the  year  1900  the  Utah  Fuel  Company  was  organized  and  that 
to-day  it  is  one  of  the  biggest  propositions  in  the  country  is  due  largely 
to  the  foresight  of  those  who  organized  and  who  have  so  successfully 
developed  the  mines.  The  capitalization  of  the  company  is  $10,000,000 
and  some  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  the  company  and  its  properties  may 
be  gained  when  it  is  known  that  the  properties  ship  this  necessary  fuel 
to  Utah,  Colorado,  Nevada,  Idaho,  Montana  and  California.  While  a 
greater  part  of  the  business  is  confined  to  the  States  of  Utah  and 
Colorado,  still  the  company  ships  large  quantities  of  the  black  diamonds 
to  the  States  mentioned  because  of  the  fact  that  the  coal  mined  here  is  of 
a  superior  grade  and  is  eagerly  sought  for  by  dealers  in  the  other 
inter-mountain  States. 

The  mines  of  the  company  are  located  at  Clear  Creek  and  Castle 
Gate,  from  which  places  comes  a  superior  grade  of  domestic  coal,  and  at 
Winter  Quarters  and  Sunnyside.  The  last  named  camp  is  where  the 
coke  industry  of  the  company  is  carried  on  exclusively.  This  is  one 
of  the  busiest  camps  of  the  company,  and  the  activity  evidenced  there 
is  truly  remarkable.  In  Colorado  the  company  has  a  mine  located  at 
Somerset.  From  this  mine  a  large  tonnage  is  extracted  every  year  and 
most  of  the  coal  from  it  is  used  in  that  State.  Conservatively  speaking, 
it  is  estimated  that  the  tonnage  of  all  the  properties  of  the  company 
is  about  2,000,000  tons  annually.  This  shows  the  magnitude  of  the 
company's  properties,  and,  as  the  coal  deposits  are  seemingly  inex- 
haustible, it  is  safe  to  predict  that  the  business  of  the  company  will 
increase  wonderfully.  The  coke  production  is  also  very  large,  amount- 
ing to  350,000  tons,  all  of  which  comes  from  the  hundreds  of  coke  ovens 
at  Sunnyside. 

At  the  present  time  the  company  employs  approximately  2300  men 
and  this  number  will  be  increased  as  the  mines  are  further  developed. 
The  company  has  its  own  houses  in  all  of  the  camps  mentioned,  and 
the  employes  have  modern  and  up-to-date  structures  to  live  in  at  a  very 
small  rental  and  everything  done  for  them  that  can  be  done  for  their 
comfort  and  good  living. 

The  officers  of  the  Utah  Fuel  Company  are:  E.  T.  Jeffrey,  presi- 
dent, New  York  City ;  C.  H.  Schlacks,  vice-president,  Denver,  Colorado ; 

A.  H.  Cowil,  vice-president,  Salt  Lake  City;  H.  G.  Williams,  general 
manager,  Salt  Lake  City ;  W.  0.  Williams,  auditor,  Salt  Lake  City ;  W. 

B.  Williams,  general  superintendent,  Salt  Lake  City;  M.  P.  Braffet, 
general  solicitor,  Salt  Lake  City ;  A.  C.  Watts,  chief  engineer,  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  E.  A.  Greenwood,  assistant  treasurer,  Salt  Lake  City. 

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INDEPENDENT  TELEPHONE  BUILDING 

UTAH  INDEPENDENT  TELEPHONE  COMPANY 

The  Utah  Independent  Telephone  Company  is  a  Utah  corporation 
having  an  authorized  capital  of  $1,000,000.  The  company  was  organ- 
ized in  January,  1903,  and  one  year  later  the  business  was  established 
and  the  company  prepared  to  furnish  service.  The  company  has  grown 
steadily  from  the  beginning,  and  its  Salt  Lake  Exchange  at  the  present 
time  is  considered  to  be  one  of  the  largest  and  best  equipped  exchanges 
in  the  Middle  West  country. 

The  executive  officers  of  the  company  are :  H.  A.  Harvey,  president ; 
Fred  B.  Jones,  general  superintendent ;  D.  B.  Mackintosh,  auditor ;  and 
Benjamin  R.  Howell,  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  directors  are: 
Waldemar  Van  Cott,  managing  director;  H.  A.  Harvey,  Lawrence 

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Green,  S.  F.  Fenton,  Heber  M.  Wells,  James  H.  Moyle,  Geo.  T.  Odell, 
John  D.  Spencer,  and  Heber  J.  Grant. 

The  company  owns  its  buildings  and  real  estate  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Ogden,  Park  City  and  Eureka.  The  company's  buildings  are  con- 
structed of  brick,  with  steel  frames,  and  are  all  of  modern  fire-proof 
construction.  It  maintains  thirteen  exchanges,  at  the  following  points : 
American  Fork,  Bingham  Canyon,  Brigham  City,  Eureka,  Logan,  Mur- 
ray, Ogden,  Park  City,  Payson,  Provo,  Salt  Lake  City,  and  Spanish 
Fork,  Utah;  and  Preston,  Idaho,  and  has  established  connection  with 
over  sixty-five  villages  and  towns  in  the  States  of  Utah  and  Idaho.  It 
employs  approximately  two  hundred  persons  in  Salt  Lake  City  alone,  and 
as  many  more  throughout  the  territory  which  is  served  by  the  company. 

The  company  began  business  with  about  1500  telephones  actually 
installed  and  at  the  present  time  has  ten  times  this  number  in  use.  The 
company  has  recently  established  a  system  of  operating  between  Salt 
Lake  City  and  Ogden  which  is  known  as  the  ' '  two-number  operating, ' ' 
whereby  the  residents  of  either  city  are  enabled  to  call  each  other  by 
number  instead  of  by  name,  and  the  aid  of  the  long  distance  operator 
is  eliminated,  thereby  giving  the  most  rapid  service  between  the  two 
municipalities.  The  rapidly  increasing  use  of  this  class  of  service  by 
the  public  is  an  evidence  of  the  satisfaction  with  which  it  has  been 
received. 

The  company  has  made  a  specialty  of  private  branch  exchanges  for 
business  houses,  and  the  rapid  growth  of  this  feature  of  the  company's 
business  is  an  evidence  of  its  popularity  with  the  company's  sub- 
scribers. These  exchanges  have  latterly  been  rapidly  installed  in  the 
business  houses  in  the  principal  towns  and  cities  of  the  State  which 
the  company  serves,  and  are  giving  most  excellent  satisfaction.  The 
company  furnishes  operators  for  the  exchanges,  who  are  taken  from 
the  ranks  of  the  experienced  employees  of  the  company  at  the  time 
the  system  is  installed.  Business  men  who  have  tried  this  system  have 
never  in  any  case  been  otherwise  than  satisfied  with  the  investment. 

The  company's  headquarters  in  Salt  Lake  City  are  at  115  South 
State  Street  and  a  visit  to  them  amply  repays  the  time  spent.  The 
entire  system  of  the  company  is  conducted  on  the  strictest  of  business 
principles,  and  the  result  of  this  policy  is  shown  by  the  rapidly  grow- 
ing popularity  of  the  company.  The  company's  progress  to  date  consti- 
tutes a  splendid  monument  to  the  efficient  management  of  the  com- 
pany's affairs  and  the  energy  and  ability  of  its  executive  officers.  Strict 
attention  to  business,  uniform  courtesy  and  frank  dealing  with  the 
public  is  required  of  each  and  every  employee  of  the  company  through- 
out the  entire  system.  This  policy  has  gone  far  toward  the  upbuilding 
of  the  institution. 

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UTAH-IDAHO  SUGAR  COMPANY 

The  Utah-Idaho  Sugar  Company  is  perhaps  the  largest  institution 
in  the  United  States  devoted  to  the  manufacture  of  sugar  from  beets. 
The  growth  of  the  company  has  been  remarkable.  It  now  has  six  large 
factories  and  it  has  planned  for  the  year  1909-10  to  produce  over 
1,000,000  bags.  The  product  last  year  was  987,013  bags.  The  capacity 
of  the  plants  and  their  location  follows : 

Lehi,  Utah,  1000  tons  daily;  Garland,  Utah,  600  tons  daily;  Idaho 
Falls,  Ida.,  600  tons;  Sugar  City,  Idaho,  800  tons;  Blackfoot,  Idaho, 
600  tons ;  Nampa,  Idaho,  600  tons ;  or  a  total  daily  capacity  of  4200  tons. 

This  company  has  an  authorized  capital  of  $10,000,000  preferred 
stock,  and  $3,000,000  common  stock.  It  has  issued  $8,102,180  of  its 
preferred  stock  and  the  entire  amount  of  its  common  stock.  The 
officers  of  the  company  follow :  Joseph  F.  Smith,  president ;  Thomas  R. 
Cutler,  vice-president  and  general  manager;  Horace  G.  Whitney,  sec- 
retary and  treasurer.  The  board  of  directors  is  composed  of  Joseph 
F.  Smith,  John  Henry  Smith,  John  R.  Winder,  Thomas  R.  Cutler, 
Heber  J.  Grant,  John  C.  Cutler,  W.  S.  McCornick,  George  Romney 
and  C.  W.  Nibley.  The  offices  of  the  company  are  at  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah. 


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PUBLIC 


IRRIGATION  IN  UTAH 

There  are  few  big  farms  in  Utah  upon  which  diversified  crops  are  grown. 
There  are  large  farms  which  grow  nothing  but  grain,  but  these  are  known  as  dry 
or  arid  farms.  Those  farms  which  are  under  irrigation  are  necessarily  small 
farms,  for  the  product  is  extraordinarily  large.  Three  crops  of  alfalfa  are 
harvested.  One  acre  of  ground  will  return  a  net  profit  of  $100  if  sugar  beets 
are  raised.  Eighteen  hundred  bushels  of  onions  are  produced  to  one  acre  of 
ground.  Eight  hundred  bushels  of  potatoes  have  been  grown  on  an  acre.  Fruit 
growers  get  returns  of  one  thousand  bushels  of  peaches,  that  is,  twenty-five 
hundred  boxes  from  an  acre,  other  fruits  in  like  proportion.  All  this  is  due  to 
irrigation. 

Utah  is  the  mother  of  irrigation.  The  first  irrigating  canals  were  constructed 
in  Utah,  more  than  50  years  ago.  One  that  carries  water  a  distance  of  40  miles 
from  Utah  Lake  to  Salt  Lake  City,  built  more  than  40  years  ago,  still  furnishes 
water  for  irrigation  for  Salt  Lake  City.  Originally,  irrigation  plants  were 
constructed  in  Utah  by  private  individuals.  The  projects  at  the  end  of  the 
year  1909  under  construction  in  the  State  will  reclaim  700,000  acres  of  land. 

The  total  cultivable  acreage  of  land  in  Utah  has  been  estimated  at  twenty 
millions.  Of  this  2,114,634  acres  are  under  cultivation,  while  the  remainder  of 
acres  irrigated  is  two  and  a  half  millions.  And  the  produce  from  the  culti- 
vated lands  in  1908  aggregated  over  eighteen  and  a  half  million  dollars,  and  this 
upon  22,000  farms. 

These  figures  in  brief  give  some  idea  of  what  irrigation  has  done  for  Utah. 
The  report  of  the  State  Board  of  Land  Commissioners  for  the  year  1908,  the 
last  available  report,  shows  that  applications  have  been  made  to  borrow  money 
for  reservoir  projects  to  an  aggregate  amount  of  a  half  a  million  dollars  beyond 
that  which  the  board  has  money  to  supply. 

The  predominating  influence  upon  home  life  in  the  irrigated  districts  is  that 
contentment  which  comes  with  the  assurance  of  success.  Hopes  materialize  here, 
and  ambitions  are  satisfied.  To  properly  work  an  irrigated  farm  does  not 
require  toil  from  sunup  in  the  morning  until  sundown  at  night,  and  then  an 
hour  or  two  of  evening  chores.  To  the  young  man,  irrigation  farming  offers  a 
wide  field  for  his  energies.  The  rewards  are  certain  and  commensurate  with  his 
ambitions.  To  the  men  who  have  reached  middle  age  and  see  approaching  the 
leisure  time  of  life,  it  offers  the  opportunity  to  enjoy  old  age  in  a  sunny  climate, 
in  a  quiet,  fertile  valley,  where  the  fields  smile  in  their  abundance  and  the  lofty 
mountain  peaks  in  the  distance  give  inspiration  to  the  mind  and  uplift  to  the 
hopes  that  spring  eternal  in  the  human  soul. 

The  quest  for  gold  lured  men  into  the  desert,  but  they  never  dreamed  of  the 
wealth  those  barren  deserts  would  produce.  Those  early  Argonauts  thought 
the  desert  would  yield  nothing  except  nuggets  washed  from  the  sands,  or 
quartz  torn  by  the  pick  from  fissures  of  rock.  To-day,  a  small  desert  valley  will 
in  a  short  time  yield  more  wealth  than  a  whole  mining  camp  will'  produce. 

Utah  can  never  overproduce  itself  in  farm  products.  Only  eleven  per  cent, 
of  its  entire  area  is  available  for  cultivation ;  eight  per  cent,  is  now  under  culti- 
vation, and  there  remains  only  three  per  cent,  to  be  placed  under  cultivation. 
Mining,  manufacturing,  and  other  industries  are  still  in  their  infancy,  but  they 
already  consume  far  more  than  this  eight  per  cent,  of  producing  land  can  fur- 

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nish.  The  product  of  the  remaining  three  per  cent.,  when  it  conies  upon  the 
market,  will  make  no  change  in  the  relations  of  a  short  supply  against  a  demand 
which  sustains  the  market  prices  upon  all  farm  products  at  the  highest  figures. 

In  Utah,  conditions  surrounding  irrigation  differ  in  many  respects  from  other 
sections  of  the  arid  region,  the  difference  being  in  the  physical  features.  The 
average  Utah  farm  is  about  twenty-five  acres.  One  cubic  foot  of  water  has  sup- 
plied seventy-five  acres  of  land,  while  the  cost  of  water  is  less  per  acre  to  the 
Utah  farmer  than  elsewhere  in  the  arid  region,  ranging  from  twenty-five  to  sixty 
cents  per  acre.  In  a  few  instances  it  has  cost  $3  per  acre,  but  it  seldom  reaches 
a  dollar. 

At  present  the  Government  has  but  one  project ;  that,  the  Strawberry  Valley. 
There  are  several  big  reservoir  schemes — the  Hatchtown,  one  which  will  cost 
$100,000,  and  which  will  bring  under  cultivation  five  thousand  acres  of  land 
in  Garfield  County ;  and  the  Piute  reservoir  project,  which  will  bring  under  culti- 
vation twenty  thousand  acres. 

When  the  scientific  Western  farmer  first  turned  his  attention  to  irrigation, 
with  the  whole  of  the  Western  lands  to  pick  from,  and  with  the  most  favorable 
tracts  lying  adjacent  to  deep  rivers,  the  pioneer  irrigator  could  bring  his  land 
under  the  irrigating  ditch  at  a  surprisingly  low  cost;  but  as  the  water  supply 
was  taken  up,  and  the  lands  lying  in  favorable  location  became  harder  and  harder 
to  secure,  the  cost  of  putting  water  on  the  lands  has  constantly  risen,  and  irri- 
gated lands  will  always  increase  in  value,  for  the  reason  that  they  are  yearly 
in  demand  and  the  supply  is  limited. 

Later  on  land  will  be  placed  on  the  market  by  irrigation  companies  at  $500, 
and  even  $1,000  per  acre,  for  already  many  Utah  irrigated  farms  are  held  at 
these  figures,  and  find  ready  purchasers.  In  some  instances  it  has  been  possible 
to  put  water  on  the  land  and  place  the  same  on  the  market  at  $50  per  acre,  while 
the  bare  cost  of  watering  other  lands  would  be  ten  times  as  much,  so  one  can 
readily  see  where  the  reserve  supply  of  lands  is  coming  from,  and  what  the  cost 
will  be.  Future  irrigation  plans  will  include  immense  reservoirs  in  the  moun- 
tains, great  water  storages  which  will  be  built  at  fabulous  cost,  and  these  water 
systems  will  water  high-priced  lands. 

On  January  1,  1908,  there  were  180,000,000  of  acres  of  land  unsettled  in  the 
United  States.  These  figures  are  staggering  to  the  unthinking  man,  and  seem 
enough  for  farms  for  the  whole  world  for  years  to  come,  but  the  thing  to  really 
stagger  one  is  that  in  1907  the  demand  was  for  20,000,000  acres  more  land  than 
was  cultivated  in  1906,  so  at  this  rate  the  entire  180,000,000  of  acres  will  easily 
be  settled  within  the  next  nine  years.  Many  authorities  believe  that  the  entire 
amount  of  lands  now  held  open  to  settlers  will  be  exhausted  within  the  next  five 
years,  and  with  the  great  trend  of  Western  immigration,  and  the  marvelous 
growth  of  Western  cities,  and  the  unprecedented  demand  for  irrigated  farms, 
five  years  seems  a  fair  estimate  of  time  to  place  on  the  final  limit  when  public 
lands  will  no  longer  be  open  to  the  settler. 

Utah,  which  was  the  pioneer  of  irrigation,  has  been  made  to  blossom  as  the 
rose.  Sage-brush  plains  have  become  fertile  fields,  all  due  to  the  conserva- 
tion of  the  waters,  impounding  of  the  water  in  great  reservoirs,  and,  when 
needed,  a  scientific  distribution  made.  This  is  what  has  made  Utah  and  what 
ultimately,  with  the  great  treasures  stored  in  the  mountain  forests,  will  make  it 
one  of  the  greatest  States  in  the  Union. 

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p.  w.  MADSEN'S  SALT  LAKE  BUSINESS  HOUSES 


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ZION'S  CO-OPEKATIVE  MERCANTILE  INSTITUTION 

Z.  C.  M.  L,  the  initials  of  the  largest  and  most  important  commercial 
establishment  in  the  Rocky  Mountain  region,  are  well  known  in  business 
and  financial  circles  throughout  America  and  Europe. 

Organized  October  16,  1868,  business  commenced  in  March  of  the 
following  year,  the  first  year's  sales  amounting  to  $1,230,700.  Since 
that  time  the  total  sales  have  reached  the  enormous  sum  of  $130,000,000, 
averaging  more  than  $3,000,000  per  annum  for  over  forty  years.  In 
1908  the  sales  were  almost  $6,000,000. 

Since  the  period  of  organization  the  cash  dividends  have  aggregated 
$3,369,598.15,  an  average  of  more  than  9  per  cent,  for  the  entire  period, 
although  for  several  years  past  a  dividend  of  12  per  cent,  has  been  paid. 
The  stock  is  held  by  about  600  stockholders,  who  reside  in  all  parts  of 
the  world. 

The  store  originally  occupied  50  x  315  ft.  A  store  of  similar  size  was 
soon  added,  and  later  a  store  60  foot  front  was  built  to  the  north.  The 
Institution  now  covers  a  floor  space  of  200,000  square  feet,  and  a  further 
extension  is  now  being  planned.  Retail  departments  occupy  the  ground 
floor,  the  basement  and  two  upper  floors  being  used  for  wholesale  and 
offices. 

The  building  is  heated  throughout  by  exhaust  steam  and  lighted  by 
electricity  from  its  own  plant,  the  steam  boilers  being  located  in  a 
separate  building  in  the  rear  of  the  premises,  and  the  engines  and  elec- 
trical machinery  in  the  basement  of  the  factory  building. 

Recently  a  sprinkling  system,  the  first  in  Utah,  was  installed  at  a 
cost  of  $26,000,  to  safeguard  the  building  against  fire.  The  essential 
feature  is  a  valve  made  of  fusible  metal,  which  melts  at  a  temperature 
of  165  degrees  Fahrenheit,  and  throws  water  at  the  rate  of  125  gallons 
a  minute,  completely  saturating  every  inch  of  space  within  a  radius 
of  from  9  to  12  feet  per  sprinkler  head.  There  are  3,700  of  these 
sprinkler  heads,  placed  eight  feet  apart,  over  300,000  feet  of  pipe  being 
necessary  to  install  the  system. 

In  1905  a  warehouse  120  x  200  feet,  having  three  floors,  was  erected 
on  Fourth  West  Street,  convenient  to  both  railway  depots,  just  south  of 
Second  South,  at  an  expense  of  $40,000. 

Over  500  employees  are  on  Z.  C.  M.  I.  's  pay-roll,  the  salaries  totaling 
over  $30,000  a  month. 

In  connection  with  the  store  a  shoe  factory  was  established  in  1870, 
and  in  1878  a  clothing  factory.  The  factory  building,  located  in  the  rear 
of  the  store,  is  50  x  165  feet  in  size,  and  contains  four  floors  and 
a  basement.  The  capacity  is  500  pairs  of  shoes  and  100  dozen  denim 
garments  daily. 

The  Institution  has  branches  at  Provo,  Utah,  and  Idaho  Falls,  Idaho. 

The  officers  and  directors  are :  Joseph  Smith,  president;  George 
Romney,  vice-president;  Thomas  G.  Webber,  secretary;  A.  W.  Carlson, 
treasurer.  Directors :  Heber  J.  Grant,  John  R.  Winder,  John  R.  Barnes, 
John  Henry  Smith,  Francis  M.  Lyman,  Anthon  H.  Lund,  Wm.  H. 
Mclntyre,  Reed  Smoot,  T.  G.  Webber,  L.  S.  Hills,  A.  W.  Carlson; 
Thomas  G.  Webber,  general  manager. 

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THE  MINE  &  SMELTER  SUPPLY  COMPANY 

This  company,  having  branch  houses  in  Denver,  Colo.,  Salt  Lake 
City,  Utah,  El  Paso,  Texas,  and  the  City  of  Mexico,  Mex.,  with  general 
offices  at  42  Broadway,  New  York  City,  is  the  largest  concern  in  the 
world  handling  mining  and  smelting  machinery  and  supplies  exclusively. 
Their  territory  covers  the  entire  Rocky  Mountain  mining  districts  from 
British  Columbia  to  the  Isthmus  of  Panama. 

The  Salt  Lake  branch  was  opened  in  1898,  having  taken  over  the 
business  of  the  Utah  &  Montana  Machinery  Company,  which  had  been 
doing  business  in  this  city  for  a  number  of  years. 

Like  the  other  branches  located  in  Denver,  El  Paso  and  the  City  of 
Mexico,  this  company  has  made  a  reputation  in  Utah  in  the  machinery 
and  smelter  supply  line  which  has  placed  it  in  the  front  rank  of  similar 
concerns  throughout  the  entire  country.  During  the  last  eleven  years 
the  Salt  Lake  branch  has  become  the  distributing  point  for  mine  sup- 
plies in  Utah,  Montana,  Idaho  and  Nevada. 

The  Mine  &  Smelter  Supply  Company  owns  control  and  manufac- 
tures the  Wilfley  concentrating  table  and  the  Wilfley  slime  table.  These 
machines  are  in  use  almost  exclusively  in  every  mining  district  in  the 
world  where  concentration  is  necessary. 

This  company  is  the  exclusive  representative  in  its  territory  of  a 
number  of  large  Eastern  manufacturers  who  manufacture  machinery 
and  supplies  covered  by  their  line,  such  as  the  Henry  R.  Worthington 
Pump  Co.,  the  Knowles  Steam  Pump  Co.,  Deane  Steam  Pump  Co., 
Blake  Steam  Pump  Co.  in  their  pump  line;  the  Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon 
Co.,  air  compressors;  Frost  Manufacturing  Co.,  boilers  and  engines; 
the  Ransome  Concrete  Machinery  Co.,  concrete  machinery;  Revere  Rub- 
ber Co.,  rubber  goods. 

They  have  the  exclusive  sale  of  the  Mine  &  Smelter  Supply  Com- 
pany's assay  balance,  manufactured  for  them  by  Wilfred  Heusser  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  which  is  without  a  doubt  the  highest-grade  instrument 
of  the  kind  made.  This  balance  has  a  number  of  improvements  which 
appeal  to  the  users  of  this  class  of  instruments.  The  Mine  &  Smelter 
Supply  Company's  stock  includes  all  the  requirements  of  mine,  mill  and 
smelter  from  assay  supplies  to  the  heavy  machinery  used  in  milling  and 
smelting  plants. 

The  Salt  Lake  office  and  salesroom  of  the  company  are  located  at 
No.  121  to  125  West  Second  South  Street  and  the  warehouse  is  located 
on  Third  South  and  Fifth  West  Street.  The  Salt  Lake  branch  is  under 
the  management  of  J.  W.  Gates. 


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THE  CULLEN  HOTEL 

Among  the  hotels  of  Salt  Lake  City,  none  is  more  popular,  none 
more  famous  than  is  the  Cullen,  which  is  run  upon  the  European  plan. 
Modern  in  every  way,  with  all  the  conveniences  necessary  to  make 
guests  comfortable,  it  enjoys  a  patronage  second  to  none  in  this  great 
inter-mountain  empire.  Situated  in  the  heart  of  the  business  center  of 
Salt  Lake,  convenient  to  all  the  theatres,  it  has  long  been  a  favorite 
with  the  traveling  public. 

The  Cullen  contains  two  hundred  rooms  with  telephones  and  run- 
ning water,  and  there  are  one  hundred  rooms  with  private  baths.  The 
sample  rooms  are  very  large  and  commodious,  thus  assuring  comfort  and 
convenience  to  commercial  men. 

The  Cullen  is  equipped  with  a  modern  sanitary  cleaning  plant,  by 
which  no  dust  ever  arises  in  hall  or  room,  the  cleaning  being  done  by 
compressed  air.  It  is  the  only  house  in  Salt  Lake  that  is  equipped  this 
way. 

Attached  to  the  Cullen  is  a  popular-priced  cafe  with  a  cuisine  that 
is  as  unexcelled  as  is  the  service.  The  cafe  has  its  own  refrigerating 
plant  and  all  the  other  conveniences  which  are  so  necessary  to  perfec- 
tion in  the  art  of  cooking. 

The  office  is  large  and  is  equipped  and  furnished  in  a  manner  that 
insures  comfort  and  luxury  for  guests.  No  more  popular  hosts  live 
than  B.  B.  Heywood  and  John  Condon,  while  the  office  force  is  made 
up  of  practical  hotel  people  who  know  how  to  care  for  patrons. 

The  Cullen  is  the  oldest  hotel  in  Salt  Lake ;  it  is  the  most  modern ; 
it  is  most  centrally  located ;  it  is  convenient  to  all  railway  stations,  all 
cars  to  which  pass  the  hotel.  All  this  makes  it  a  desirable  place  to 
live  when  sojourning  in  Salt  Lake  City. 


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ROCKY  MOUNTAIN  BELL  TELEPHONE   COMPANY 

One  of  the  pioneer  business  institutions  of  the  West,  and  one  that 
has  created  a  big  industry  in  the  inter-mountain  country,  is  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Bell  Telephone  Company,  which  maintains  comprehensive 
local  and  long-distance  telephone  service  throughout  Utah,  Idaho,  Mon- 
tana and  Wyoming. 

The  company's  history  is  interesting.  It  was  started  as  a  small 
local  concern  in  Utah  only  a  few  years  after  the  telephone  had  been 
developed  to  the  point  where  it  gave  promise  of  becoming  a  commercial 
utility,  and  has  grown  steadily  until  now  its  lines  reach  to  all  parts 
of  the  four  States  that  constitute  its  territory  and  connect  with  other 
lines  extending  through  other  States. 

It  has  achieved  remarkable  success  in  an  unusually  difficult  terri- 
tory, where  it  has  covered  more  area  in  proportion  to  population  than 
any  other  telephone  company  in  the  country.  Its  territory  embraces 
almost  every  condition  of  topography  and  climate  to  be  found  in  the 
United  States  and  it  has  met  and  solved  successfully  many  problems 
that  it  had  to  meet  without  the  benefit  of  a  precedent  in  the  telephone 
business  anywhere. 

It  has  been  a  conspicuous  factor  in  the  development  of  its  field, 
commercially  and  socially,  by  providing  the  right  sort  of  quick  com- 
munication between  all  portions  of  its  territory.  It  is  now  operating 
eight  thousand  miles  of  long-distance  pole  lines,  connecting  1200  dif- 
ferent points  in  the  four  States,  thus  furnishing  the  universal  telephone 
service  that  alone  is  adequate  to  meet  the  needs  of  a  busy  and  growing- 
region.  The  thoroughness  with  which  it  has  developed  its  territory  in 
the  face  of  so  many  adverse  physical  conditions  is  regarded  as  mar- 
velous by  the  leading  telephone  men  of  the  country. 

It  has  been  quick  to  take  advantage  of  every  improvement  of  merit 
developed  in  the  business,  and  is  engaged  continuously  in  extending  its 
system  to  meet  the  growth  of  the  territory  and  in  improving  existing 
plants  in  order  to  cover  the  field  properly  and  to  be  able  to  give  the 
right  sort  of  service  at  all  times. 

The  company  was  formed  by  Western  men  under  the  laws  of  Utah, 
and  it  remains  a  Utah  corporation  to  this  day.  Its  stock  is  still  held 
largely  by  persons  living  in  its  own  territory,  thus  making  it  essentially 
a  "home"  institution,  while  at  the  same  time  it  has,  through  its  affilia- 
tion with  the  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Company,  the  advantage 
of  connections  with  other  Bell  telephone  companies  and  the  benefit  of 
the  advice  and  services  of  the  best  minds  in  the  telephone  field.  Its 
financial  organization  is  sound  and  conservative  and  its  rates  have 
always  been  so  adjusted  as  to  earn  only  a  fair  return  on  the  money 
invested  in  the  plant. 

The  general  offices  of  the  company  are  at  Salt  Lake  City,  where  the 
company  owns  one  of  the  finest  fire-proof  buildings  in  the  West,  built 
especially  with  a  view  to  providing  ideal  facilities  for  the  conduct  of  the 
telephone  business.  The  company  also  owns  and  occupies  its  own  build- 
ings at  twenty-five  other  cities  in  the  four  States. 


THE   BRICK  AND   BRICK-MAKING 

A  brick  is  such  a  common,  such  a  plebeian  thing  that  the  average  person  has 
perhaps  never  given  it  a  second  thought.  Inquiry  would  probably  develop  the 
fact  that  he  had  a  somewhat  hazy  idea  that  it  was  made  of  earth  and  baked  in 
some  way — perhaps  like  a  baked  potato  or  a  pan  of  biscuits — and  that  was  about 
all  he  knew  about  it.  If  this  average  man  were  told  that  there  is  a  concern  in 
Salt  Lake  making  200,000  brick  per  day— enough  to  build  ten  modern  five- 
room  houses— he  would  probably  be  incredulous  and  want  to  be  "shown,"  and 
yet  it  is  true. 

The  Salt  Lake  Pressed  Brick  Company  is  that  concern,  and  in  the  number 
of  employees  and  value  of  product  it  stands  well  up  in  the  list  of  large 


JOHN    P.    CAHOON,   GENERAL   MANAGER 
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manufacturers  in  Utah.  Its  extensive  plant  is  located  at  Fourteenth  South  and 
Eleventh  East  Streets,  Salt  Lake  City.  When  the  original  plant  was  built,  in 
1891,  it  was  only  after  exhaustive  explorations  for  and  tests  of  clay  beds  con- 
taining suitable  brick  material  throughout  the  valley  generally,  from  points  in 
Davis  County  on  the  north  to  the  vicinity  of  Sandy  on  the  south.  Time  and 
experience  have  justified  the  wisdom  of  the  selection  then  made.  Not  only  has 
the  clay  proved  admirably  adapted  to  the  manufacture  of  the  finest  brick,  but  it 
has  been  found  to  exist  in  unexpected  quantities.  The  beds  are  in  some  places 
fourteen  feet  thick  and  are  known  to  extend  east  from  the  factory  for  a  mile 
and  a  half  and  to  considerable  distances  in  other  directions.  The  company 
now  owns  150  acres  of  these  clay  lands,  and  has  the  material  to  make  brick  for 
years  to  come.  The  plant  itself  covers  nearly  ten  acres  of  ground.  In  its  con- 
struction 10,000,000  brick  were  used,  more  than  were  required  in  building  any 
ether  structure  or  plant  in  Utah,  the  great  Garfield  Smelter  alone  excepted.  The 
whole  plant  is  lighted  and  operated,  so  far  as  power  can  be  applied,  by  elec- 
tricity generated  by  two  water-propelled  power  plants,  one  located  in  Big 
Cottonwood  Canyon  and  one  in  Mill  Creek  Canyon. 

The  first  brick  plant  built  by  the  company  had  a  capacity  of  20,000  brick 
per  day  which  has  now  grown  to  200,000  per  day,  and  it  is  harder  to  keep  up 
with  the  demand  now  than  it  was  then.  Such  success  is  not  usually  achieved 
without  merit,  the  product  of  the  company  being  a  superior  article,  whether 
the  high-grade  white  or  red  pressed  brick  of  which  so  many  handsome  buildings 
in  Salt  Lake  are  constructed ;  or  the  common  brick  used  in  inside  and  back  walls. 
This  superiority .  is  due  to  perfect  material,  adequate  equipment  and  efficient 
management  combined  with  " knowing  how."  These  things  have  given  the 
brick  produced  by  this  company  a  wide  fame  throughout  the  inter-mountain 
country  and  they  are  extensively  used  all  over  Utah,  Nevada,  southern  Idaho 
and  western  Wyoming,  going  as  far  west  as  Goldfield,  Nevada,  and  Boise,  Idaho, 
and  north  to  Butte,  Montana.  Twenty-five  of  the  largest  school  buildings  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  besides  scores  of  other  large  buildings  and  many  hundreds  of 
residences,  have  been  built  from  the  product  of  this  factory.  There  is  a  rail- 
road switch  to  the  factory  from  the  Park  City  line,  affording  good  shipping 
facilities. 

The  clay  is  plowed  from  the  beds  where  nature  placed  it  and  scraped  to  the 
loading  chutes  where  it  falls  into  cars  each  holding  enough  to  make  2,000  brick, 
and  is  run  by  mule  power  on  an  easy  down  grade  to  the  clay  sheds  which  have 
a  storage  capacity  sufficient  to  run  the  factory  through  any  period  of  rainy 
weather  that  may  occur.  From  here  the  clay  is  carried  by  a  system  of  endless 
belt  conveyors  and  elevators  through  automatic  machinery  which  grinds,  screens 
and  tempers  it,  finally  depositing  it  in  bins  above  the  presses,  which  are 
to  form  it  into  brick.  From  these  bins  it  drops  by  gravity  down  a  chute  into 
the  presses.  These  are  of  two  types,  the  mold  presses  which  shape  each  indi- 
vidual brick  separately  under  enormous  pressure,  and  the  wire  cut  press  in 
which  the  continuous  column  of  compressed  clay  forced  from  the  orifice  of  the 
machine  is  automatically  sliced  into  brick,  twenty  at  a  clip.  Of  the  first  type 
of  machine  there  are  four  in  use,  two  of  six  molds  each  and  two  of  four.  These 
are  used  for  making  the  better  grades  of  pressed  brick  and  their  combined 

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capacity  is  110,000  brick  per  day.  Of  the  wire  cut  type  there  is  but  one  machine 
in  use,  but  it  is  a  hustler,  turning  out  approximately  100,000  common  brick  per 
day.  In  the  new  kiln,  where  the  common  brick  are  made,  the  handling  of  the 
brick  by  hand  is  all  but  eliminated.  This  new  kiln  was  built  late  in  1907,  but  was 
i"0t  put  into  service  until  the  summer  of  1908.  It  is  an  immense  affair,  1160  feet 
in  length,  including  the  storage  space,  and  110  feet  wide.  It  is  what  is  called 
an  open-top,  continuous  kiln,  and  was  built  from  designs  original  with  Mr.  J.  P. 
Cahoon,  manager  of  the  company.  Its  capacity  is  4,000,000  brick.  It  consists 
of  a  double  row  of  kiln  chambers  and  over  each  row  travels  a  huge  electric  crane 
which  picks  up  2000  brick  at  a  time  and  gently  deposits  them  either  in  the 
drying  department,  in  a  kiln  chamber  for  firing,  in  the  storage  space,  or  in  the 
railroad  car  for  shipping,  as  may  be  desired.  The  brick  are  handled  in  crates 
and  the  breakage  is  less  than  it  would  be  by  hand,  while  the  saving  in  labor  can 
hardly  be  estimated.  Another  feature  of  the  new  kiln  is  that  it  has  no  stack, 
there  being  substituted  for  it  to  create  the  necessary  draft,  an  enormous  fan, 
driven  by  a  fifty-five  horse-power  electric  motor. 

The  finest  pressed  brick  are  burned  in  the  Kessler  kilns,  six  in  number  and 
holding  about  half  a  million  brick.  These  brick  are  burned  from  twenty-two  to 
thirty  days  and  are  heated  to  a  white  heat.  There  is  one  Hoffman  continuous 
kiln  having  twenty-two  chambers  and  a  capacity  of  700,000  brick,  and  one  tun- 
nel continuous  kiln  with  eighteen  chambers  and  a  capacity  of  550,000.  The 
aggregate  capacity  of  all  the  kilns  is  5,750,000  brick,  or  220,000  for  every  work- 
ing day,  the  time  required  in  drying,  burning  and  cooling  the  brick  being 
about  thirty  days.  In  other  words,  in  thirty  days  from  the  time  a  brick  is 
molded  it  is  ready  for  the  market. 

A  continuous  kiln  is  one  in  which  the  fire  is  burning  all  the  time.  It  con- 
sists of  a  series  of  connected  chambers  arranged  either  in  the  form  of  an  oval 
or  in  two  parallel  rows,  and  the  fire  passes  slowly  from  chamber  to  chamber,  so 
that  some  chambers  are  being  filled,  others  are  burning  and  others  are  being 
emptied,  all  at  the  same  time.  This  system  economizes  fuel,  and  this  economy 
is  carried  further  by  utilizing  the  waste  heat  from  the  burning  chambers  in 
drying  the  freshly  molded  brick.  Crushed  coal,  or  slack,  is  used  for  fuel  and 
is  fed  into  the  kilns  through  small  holes  in  the  top,  about  a  teacupful  being  put 
into  each  hole  every  half  hour.  An  intense,  even  heat,  that  can  be  regulated 
perfectly  is  thus  secured  and  maintained  as  long  as  desired.  As  they  come  from 
the  kiln  all  brick  except  the  common  are  sorted,  or  shaded  as  it  is  called,  to 
secure  absolute  uniformity  of  color  and  quality.  Certain  red  clay  produces  the 
red  brick,  other  clay  produces  the  white  brick,  and  the  color  is  also  somewhat 
affected  by  differences  in  burning. 

The  company  employs  about  200  men  and  has  $30,000  invested  in  teams 
engaged  mainly  in  delivering  brick  throughout  Salt  Lake  City.  A  roomy,  con- 
venient and  up-to-date  brick  office  building  is  now  under  construction  and  will 
be  ready  for  occupancy  in  a  few  weeks.  A  down-town  office  is  maintained  at 
126  Main  Street,  where  an  interesting  display  of  the  products  of  the  factory 
may  be  seen.  John  P.  Cahoon  is  president  and  manager  of  the  company ;  George 
Curley,  vice-president ;  Wm.  S.  Simkins,  treasurer. 


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HOUSTON   EEAL   ESTATE   INVESTMENT   COMPANY 

Modest  men  are  those  who  compose  the  Houston  Real  Estate  Invest- 
ment Company,  one  of  the  oldest  firms  engaged  in  this  line  of  business 
in  Salt  Lake  City.  The  officers  of  the  company  are :  J.  W.  Houston,  pres- 
ident; A.  W.  Houston,  vice-president;  C.  W.  Johnson,  secretary  and 
treasurer.  The  capital  is  $10,000.  The  company  was  incorporated  in 
1898,  although  the  Houstons  had  been  in  business  here  for  several  years 
prior.  Its  business  has  grown  in  volume,  due  to  careful,  conservative 
management,  until  it  is  numbered  among  the  largest  real  estate  cor- 
porations in  the  inter-mountain  empire. 

The  offices  of  the  company  occupy  the  first  floor  in  the  magnificent 
Boston  Block,  fronting  on  Main  Street  and  Exchange  Place.  These 
offices  are  beautiful  in  that  they  are  simple  in  furnishings,  modest  in 
appointment,  yet  handsome,  because  they  are  modest— the  handsomest 
real  estate  offices  in  the  West. 

While  the  capitalization  of  the  company  is  but  $10,000,  the  surplus 
and  undivided  profit  account  is  fifteen  times  that  amount,  and  the  busi- 
ness has  been  expanded  to  large  proportions.  Several  business  struc- 
tures have  been  erected,  as  also  a  number  of  residences  by  the  company, 
while  the  real  estate  transactions  which  the  company  has  negotiated  and 
carried  through  successfully,  aggregate  a  large  sum. 

It  can  be  said  of  the  Houston  Real  Estate  Investment  Company  that 
it  does  things,  does  them  at  the  right  time,  and  in  the  right  way.  Con- 
servatism has  marked  the  business  career  and  that  is  what  has  enabled 
the  company  to  build  up  a  business  second  to  none  in  the  real-estate 
world  of  Salt  Lake. 

This  work  has  been  carried  on;  their  business  has  been  increased; 
their  clientele  has  become  enlarged  without  any  flourish  of  trumpets, 
without  any  dress  parade.  The  company  is  a  believer  in  the  use  of 
printer's  ink — believes  in  advertising— but  has  an  idea  of  its  own 
regarding  this  matter.  Its  announcements  are  terse  and  pointed,  and 
the  advertising  columns  of  the  newspapers  are  used  to  make  the 
announcements.  The  company  has  real  estate  for  sale ;  it  has  improved 
property  on  the  market;  it  has  a  number  of  properties,  both  business 
and  residence  in  its  rental  department.  Its  insurance,  loan  and  bond 
department  is  an  important  factor  in  the  payments  of  its  annual  divi- 
dends. It  will,  and  does,  build  business  structures  to  suit  tenants.  In 
all  this,  the  company  transacts  its  own  business.  In  other  words  the 
transaction  is  as  lawyer  to  client,  as  physician  to  patient,  as  priest  to 
confessor.  It  belongs  to  them  alone ;  hence  the  transfers,  the  sales  made, 
the  prices  paid,  are  not  emblazoned  to  the  world. 

It  is  the  policy  of  conservatism,  of  pursuing  one  method  in  transac- 
tion of  business  that  has  enabled  the  company  to  reach  the  acme  of  the 
individuals  who  make  up  the  company.  No  eulogy  is  necessary.  They 
have  lived  in  Salt  Lake  City  for  years,  their  lives  have  been  an  open 
book,  their  methods  are  known  and  it  is  this  that  has  made  the 
Houston  Real  Estate  Investment  Company  known  throughout  the  busi- 
ness world  of  Utah,  of  the  inter-mountain  empire,  and  of  the  entire 
country. 

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LEWIS  S.   HILLS 


LEWIS  SAMUEL  HILLS 

Lewis  S.  Hills  was  born  March  8,  1836,  at  South  Amherst,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  is  a  son  of  Lewis  Hills,  a  farmer,  and  of  Rhoda  Thayer 
Hills.  Mr.  Hills  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  and  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  July  27th,  1862. 

On  May  1,  1869,  associated  with  the  late  Capt.  Wm.  H.  Hooper  and 
the  late  Horace  S.  Eldredge,  he  started  the  private  bank  of  Hooper, 
Eldredge  &  Co.,  with  $40,000  capital.  This  firm  was  incorporated  under 
the  National  Bank  Act,  in  1872,  as  the  Deseret  National  Bank,  and  Mr. 
Hills  became  cashier,  occupying  that  position  until  January,  1892,  when 
he  became  president,  and  has  occupied  that  office  since  that  date. 

The  name  of  Lewis  S.  Hills  is  an  honored  and  respected  one  through- 
out the  entire  inter-mountain  region.  No  man  has  been  more  con- 
scientious and  honest  in  his  endeavors  to  build  up  this  beautiful  coun- 
try, nor  has  any  one  man  accomplished  more  to  that  end,  than  has  Mr. 
Hills.  As  president  of  one  of  the  strongest  financial  institutions  in 
the  Western  country,  the  Deseret  National  Bank,  he  has  for  a  period  of 
years  come  in  contact  with  and  been  financial  adviser  of  countless 
thousands  of  persons  who  have  reason  to  feel  indebted  to  him  for  his 
assistance  and  kindly  suggestions  as  to  their  welfare.  In  depression, 
as  well  as  in  good  times,  Mr.  Hills  has  always  been  found  to  be  a 
guiding  spirit  for  many  who  might  have  failed  but  for  his  good  offices 
and  sound  advice  and  judgment.  Mr.  Hills  has  many  and  diversified 
interests,  as  he  is  also  a  director  of  the  Deseret  Savings  Bank;  the  Zion's 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution;  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and 
Machine  Company;  the  Home  Fire  Insurance  Company;  Beneficial 
Life  Insurance  Company;  the  Utah  Fire  Clay  Company;  the  Nephi 
Plaster  Company;  the  First  National  Bank  of  Ogden;  First  National 
Bank  of  Murray;  Nephi  National  Bank;  Thatcher  Brothers'  Bank  of 
Logan;  Davis  County  Bank,  Farmington;  Barnes  Banking  Company, 
Kaysville ;  shareholder  in  the  Oregon  Lumber  Company,  Amalgamated 
Sugar  Company,  Utah-Idaho  Sugar  Company,  First  National  Bank  of 
Montpelier,  Ltd.,  Wells  Fargo  Express  Company,  San  Francisco,  South- 
ern Trust  Company  of  Los  Angeles,  Evanston  National  Bank,  Manti 
City  Savings  Bank  Company. 

Mr.  Hills  has  held  the  office  of  registrar  of  the  United  States  Land 
Office  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa;  was  the  first  receiver  of  United  States 
Land  Office  at  Salt  Lake  City;  served  two  terms  in  the  city  council  of 
Salt  Lake  City;  and  treasurer  of  the  University  of  Utah  and  several 
corporations  with  which  he  was  connected.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Alta  Club,  Automobile  Club  of  Salt  Lake  City,  Reform  Club  of  New 
York  City,  and  Free  Trade  League  of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

Mr.  Hills  was  married  to  Theresa  Burton,  October  17,  1866,  and  to 
them  have  been  born  six  children;  namely,  Lewis  B.,  Maria  T.,  Edgar 
S.,  Eugene  R.,  Herbert  T.  (deceased),  and  Harold  H.  Mr.  Hills  resides 
at  425  East  First  South  Street,  Salt  Lake  City. 

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W.  H.  BANCEOFT 


WILLIAM  HAZARD  BANCROFT 

It  was  an  old-fashioned  rose,  not  an  American  Beauty,  but  just  a 
plain  old  rose,  that  made  a  general  manager  of  a  great  railroad  sys- 
tem out  of  a  station  agent  at  a  little  hamlet  in  New  York.  That  was 
in  the  long  ago.  It  was  on  the  Lake  Shore  road.  The  time  was  in  1860. 
At  a  little  station  on  the  Lake  Shore  a  special  carrying  the  general 
manager  of  the  system  stopped  for  orders.  It  was  in  the  summer  time. 
About  the  station  everything  was  as  neat  as  a  pin.  There  were  blos- 
soms everywhere ;  chief  among  these  blossoms  were  old-fashioned  roses. 
It  was  an  ocular  demonstration  of  What  could  be  done  in  beautifying, 
in  making  the  best  of  surrounding!  The  general  manager  was 
delighted.  He  questioned  the  young  station  agent  and  operator,  praised 
the  appearance  of  his  station.  The  orders  were  received.  The  special 
proceeded  on  its  way.  Two  weeks  later  that  station  agent  was  promoted. 
He  has  been  promoted  a  number  of  times  since.  Several  years  ago 
the  acme  was  reached  when  he  was  made  vice-president  and  general 
manager  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad.  This  man  is  William 
Hazard  Bancroft. 

He  was  born  in  Chagrin  Falls,  Ohio,  October  20,  1840,  where  his 
father,  Samuel  0.  Bancroft,  ran  a  grist  mill;  and  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  in  his  home  town.  At  sixteen  years  of  age  he  entered  the 
railroad  service  as  messenger  boy,  learned  telegraphy,  became  an  expert 
operator,  was  sent  to  the  little  hamlet  above  cited,  then  to  Port  Jervis, 
where  he  was  made  dispatcher.  Here  he  was  married  to  Mary  J. 
Baird  in  June,  1864.  Thence  his  advancement  through  the  various 
channels  of  the  railroad  world.  He  became  train  dispatcher  on  the 
Kansas  Pacific,  now  the  Union  Pacific ;  then  assistant  superintendent  on 
the  Santa  Fe;  then  with  the  "Katy"  as  chief  dispatcher.  From  there 
he  advanced  to  the  superintendency  of  various  divisions  of  the  Denver 
and  Rio  Grande ;  in  1884-86  receiver  of  the  Rio  Grande  Western,  and  for 
four  years  afterward  general  superintendent  of  same.  Then  in  1890  he 
returned  to  the  Union  Pacific  as  general  superintendent  of  the  mountain 
division.  In  1897  he  was  made  vice-president  and  general  manager  of 
the  Oregon  Short  Line  when  that  system  was  segregated  from  the  Union 
Pacific.  Later,  in  addition  to  this  position,  he  became  general  manager 
of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company's  lines  east  of  Sparks,  Nevada;  first 
vice-president  of  the  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  Salt  Lake  Railroad ; 
president  of  the  Utah  Light  and  Railway  Company. 

Mr.  Bancroft  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  and  Commercial  clubs  of  Salt 
Lake  City;  Mt.  Moriah  Lodge  No.  2,  F.  &  A.  M. ;  thirty-third  degree 
Mason,  A.  A.  S.  Rite,  Valley  of  Salt  Lake.  He  has  never  held  any 
political  office.  He  has  two  adopted  daughters,  Marie  and  Adelaide. 
With  the  wife  of  his  youth  he  resides  at  his  handsome  home  on  East 
South  Temple  Street,  Salt  Lake  City.  His  love  for  blossoms  is  as  great 
to-day  as  in  the  long  ago,  and  roses,  including  the  old-fashioned  ones, 
are  in  plenty,  and  beautify,  in  their  season,  the  grounds  about  his  home. 

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DAVID    KEITH 


DAVID  KEITH 

Few  men,  if  any,  have  had  more  to  do  with  the  upbuilding  of  Salt 
Lake  City  than  David  Keith.  His  successful  work  in  making  of  a  mere 
prospect  the  great  mining  property  known  as  the  Silver  King  has  had 
so  great  a  bearing,  in  all  its  ramifications,  on  the  material  growth  of 
Salt  Lake  City  and  Utah,  that,  if  this  work  were  presented  in  its  many 
interesting  details,  it  would  read  like  a  fanciful  dream. 

Almost  the  whole  of  the  tremendous  wealth  which  the  Silver  King 
poured  into  the  laps  of  its  owners  has  been  used  by  them  in  making 
of  Salt  Lake  City  "a  City  Beautiful"  in  every  sense  of  the  term.  The 
Silver  King  Mine  has  done  more  for  Utah  than  any  half  dozen  other  suc- 
cessful properties.  The  money  wrested  from  the  mountains  has  been 
kept  at  home.  And  the  most  public-spirited  of  all  those  associated  in 
this  great  property,  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

David  Keith  is  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia.  He  was  born  at  Mabou, 
Cape  Breton  Island,  May  27,  1847.  He  had  no  advantages  in  birth,  and 
at  a  tender  age  was  employed  in  the  Nova  Scotia  mines.  When  yet  a 
boy  he  left  home  and  went  to  sea. 

Tiring  of  a  seafaring  life,  he  attempted  to  enter  the  Federal  Army, 
but  his  sea  captain,  who  had  become  attached  to  him,  disclosed  his 
youth  and  he  missed  an  opportunity  to  serve  in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion. 

In  1867,  after  a  brief  time  spent  in  California,  he  went  to  Nevada 
and  was  employed  for  a  time  as  a  construction  "boss"  in  the  building 
of  the  Southern  Pacific  near  Reno.  Later  he  found  employment  in  the 
great  Comstock  mines  and  succeeded  to  positions  of  trust  and  responsi- 
bility. On  the  decline  of  this  great  mining  camp,  David  Keith  went  to 
Park  City,  Utah,  in  1883,  accepted  a  situation  as  foreman  of  Ontario 
No.  3  and  succeeded  to  the  superintendency  of  that  great  property. 
After  several  years  in  the  employ  of  the  Ontario  he  associated  with 
Thomas  Kearns,  John  Judge  and  Al  Emery,  in  taking  a  lease  on  mining 
claims,  from  which  enterprise  sprang  the  great  Silver  King,  which  has 
made  fortunes  for  its  promoters  and  their  families  and  added  immensely 
to  the  wealth  of  the  State. 

David  Keith  has  valuable  and  numerous  investments  in  Salt  Lake 
and  elsewhere.  He  has  been  immensely  generous  in  upbuilding1  the 
State.  He  is  in  the  forefront  as  a  philanthropist,  and  is  one  of  the 
best  liked  men  in  Salt  Lake.  He  organized  the  Keith-0  'Brien  Company 
and  recently  disposed  of  his  holdings  in  that  great  mercantile  house  to 
David  F.  Walker,  but  the  original  name  is  not  changed. 

Mr.  Keith  was  a  member  of  the  legislature  which  adopted  the  Utah 
Constitution,  but  beyond  this  he  has  neither  sought  nor  held  political 
office.  He  has  a  family  composed  of  a  wife  and  five  children,  four 
daughters  and  a  son,  and  occupies  one  of  the  most  beautiful  homes  in 
Salt  Lake  City. 

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SAMUEL    H.    AUEEBACH 


SAMUEL  H.  AUERBACH 

One  of  the  successful  merchants  of  whom  Salt  Lakers  are  justly  proud,  is 
Samuel  H.  Auerbach,  owner  of  the  wholesale  and  retail  dry  goods  house  of 
F.  Auerbach  &  Bro .,  one  of  the  pioneer  business  institutions  of  the  State,  and  a 
firm  whose  name  is  synonymous  with  upright  and  honorable  fair  dealing. 

Samuel  H.  Auerbach  was  born  in  the  town  of  Fordon,  Prussia,  June  15th, 
1847,  his  mothe"  being  Beulah  Auerbach  and  his  father  Hillel  Auerbach,  a 
dealer  in  wool  and  hides.  Mr.  Auerbach  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native 
town,  but  at  an  early  age  came  to  America  to  seek  his  fortune,  and  shortly  after 
landing  in  New  York,  was  attracted  by  the  possibilities  of  the  West.  He 
settled  in  California,  where  he  lived  several  years,  being  associated  with  his 
brother,  Frederick  H.  Auerbach,  in  Marysville,  a  prosperous  mining  town.  In 
1866  he  moved  to  Salt  Lake  City,  following  his  brother  Frederick  H.,  who  had 
established  the  business  of  F.  Auerbach  &  Bro.  in  Salt  Lake  City.,  in  1864.  Since 
that  time,  Mr.  Auerbach  has  been  an  active  factor  in  the  Utah  business  world. 
He  was  married  December  16,  1880,  to  Miss  Eveline  Brooks,  by  whom  he  has  eight 
children,  namely:  Herbert  S.,  Josephine  M.,  George  S.,  Bessie,  Selma,  Jennie, 
Frederick  S.  and  Madeline. 

While  Mr.  Auerbach  has  resided  for  some  years  past  in  New  York,  he  has 
always  given  much  of  his  attention  to  Salt  Lake  City,  where  in  addition  to  his 
mercantile  business,  he  is  a  very  large  owner  of  real  estate.  From  a  compara- 
tively small  beginning,  the  business  has  grown  to  one  of  splendid  volume,  with 
employees  running  into  the  hundreds,  and  requiring,  perhaps,  the  largest  exclu- 
sive dry  goods  stock  in  the  State.  While  operating-  one  of  the  largest  retail 
dry  goods  businesses  in  Salt  Lake  City,  the  wholesale  department  sends  out  a 
number  of  traveling  men,  covering  all  of  Utah  and  parts  of  Wyoming,  Idaho 
and  Nevada.  Mr.  Auerbach 's  son,  George  S.,  takes  an  active  part  in  the  man- 
agement of  the  business. 

In  addition  to  the  dry  goods  business,  the  Auerbachs  are  the  owners  of  the 
Colonial  Theatre,  recently  erected  at  great  expense,  and  constituting  Salt  Lake's 
most  modern  and  up-to-date  playhouse.  Constructed  after  the  latest  plans  and 
containing  all  the  newest  devices  in  vogue  in  Eastern  theatres,  the  Colonial  is 
perhaps  the  best  appointed  and  generally  most  attractive  institution  of  the  kind 
west  of  Chicago.  The  upper  stories  of  the  Colonial  Theatre  Building  comprise 
the  Hotel  Touraine,  a  European-plan  hotel  and  bachelor  apartments  which  has 
no  equal  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Shrewd,  and  possessed  of  natural  tact  and  ability,  Mr.  Auerbach  at  an  early 
age  readily  realized  the  commercial  possibilities  of  the  Mormon  metropolis. 
With  a  disposition  which  enabled  him  to  make  friends  and  hold  them,  his  rise 
in  the  business  world  was  rapid  and  substantial,  and  at  no  time  from  the 
beginning  of  his  career  was  there  ever  a  shadow  of  doubt  as  to  the  ultimate 
success  of  his  ventures.  While  no  longer  an  actual  resident  of  the  city,  Mr. 
Auerbach  is  still  looked  up  to  as  one  of  the  pillars  of  the  Salt  Lake  industrial 
world,  and  as  such  is  accorded  a  measure  of  admiration  and  respect  which  is  at 
once  a  tribute  to  his  ability  and  a  proof  of  the  appreciation  of  his  services  to  the 
community. 


THOS.    R.    CUTLEE 


THOMAS  E.   CUTLER 

Thomas  E.  Cutler,  vice-president  and  general  manager  of  the  Utah- 
Idaho  Sugar  Company  and  many  other  important  enterprises  through- 
out the  inter-mountain  country,  has  been  a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City 
for  nearly  half  a  century,  and  during  that  period  has  witnessed  the 
marvelous  growth  of  the  city  from  a  small  town  of  four  thousand  souls 
to  the  magnificent  and  wealthy  city  it  is  to-day. 

Mr.  Cutler  was  born  at  Sheffield,  Yorkshire,  England,  June  2,  1844, 
and  is  a  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Cutler.  The  elder  Cutler  was  a 
steel  manufacturer.  After  receiving  an  ordinary  common-school  educa- 
tion, Thomas,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  entered  the  employ  of  S.  &  I.  Watts 
&  Co.,  a  mercantile  house  of  Manchester,  England.  There  he  remained 
until  March,  1864,  when  he  severed  his  connection  and,  with  his  family, 
came  to  Utah  and  became  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  Mormon  faith.  He 
was  one  of  four  brothers,  three  of  whom  are  still  living,  and  prominent 
in  Utah  business  circles.  The  family  arrived  in  Utah  in  the  fall  of 
1864,  and  early  in  1865  Thomas  secured  employment  with  the  T.  &  W. 
Taylor  Mercantile  Company,  of  Lehi,  where  he  remained  for  several 
years.  He  next  engaged  in  the  cattle  and  sheep  raising  business  and 
made  considerable  money,  with  which  he  organized  the  People's  Co- 
operative Institution  of  Lehi,  a  successful  business  house  which  has 
always  paid  dividends.  He  is  still  president  of  that  progressive  insti- 
tution, and  was  its  manager  till  1889,  when  he  became  manager  of  the 
Utah  Sugar  Company,  whose  great  success  has  been  due  to  his  unusual 
business  capacity. 

In  1899  he  organized  the  Lehi  Commercial  and  Savings  Bank,  of 
which  he  is  still  a  director.  He  is  also  a  director  in  the  Provo  Woolen 
Mills,  the  most  successful  enterprise  of  its  kind  in  the  Western  country. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Cutler  Brothers  Company  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  interested  in  numerous  mining  ventures,  industrial  corporations, 
financial  institutions,  etc.,  too  numerous  to  mention.  He  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Utah  National  Bank,  director  of  the  Consolidated  W^agon  and 
Machine  Company,  which  is  one  of  the  largest  in  the  world,  president  of 
the  Continental  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  director  in  about  a  dozen 
banks  throughout  the  country.  Mr.  Cutler  is  a  natural  financier,  a 
good  business  man,  generous  to  a  fault,  kindly  and  sympathetic.  He 
was  married  December  23,  1867,  and  is  the  father  of  an  interesting 
family  of  fifteen;  namely,  Emerette  E.,  Thomas  E.  Jr.,  Edith  Laura, 
William  Henry,  Joseph  A.,  Miranda,  Luella,  Vera,  Louis,  Irma,  Heber 
C.,  John  F.,  Arthur,  Ernest,  and  Marion.  The  only  political  offices  Mr. 
Cutler  ever  held  were  in  Lehi,  where  he  lived  for  thirty-five  years,  and 
were  of  a  local  nature.  Mr.  Cutler  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club  and 
of  the  Commercial  Club,  and  resides  at  2000  South  Fifth  East  Street, 
Salt  Lake  City. 

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HON.  THOMAS  KEAKNS 


Stories  written  about  mine  owners  and  mining  men  are  more  like  fiction  than 
real  life,  for  there  are  so  many  who  jump  from  poverty  to  affluence  in  a  day; 
this,  however,  after  years  of  privation  and  suffering  and  trial.  Some  day, 
after  weary  years,  when  almost  ready  to  abandon  the  struggle,  almost  ready 
to  give  up  life,  the  pick  of  the  hammer  breaks  down  a  wall  of  rock  and  there 
is  the  precious  metal  so  long  sought. 

The  story  of  the  life  of  Thomas  Kearns  is  a  story  of  hard  work,  of  poverty, 
of  privation,  of  suffering,  before  the  goal  was  reached.  Born  near  Woodstock, 
Ontario,  April  llth,  1862,  his  forty-seven  years  of  life  have  been  most  active. 
In  the  early  seventies  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Holt  County,  Nebraska, 
where  they  settled  upon  a  farm.  He  worked  on  the  farm  for  several  years 
and  in  the  winter  attended  the  public  schools. 

Tiring  of  farm  life,  believing  that  there  was  greater  opportunity  in  the 
mining  districts,  he  left  the  farm  and  began  the  business  of  freighter,  moving 
supplies  into  the  Black  Hills.  Later  on  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Great 
Homestake  Mining  Company,  at  Lead,  South  Dakota,  as  a  miner.  When  he 
attained  his  majority  he  left  the  Black  Hills  and  came  to  Utah,  first  to  Salt 
Lake  and  then  to  Park  City,  at  which  place  he  secured  employment  in 
the  Ontario  mine,  then  the  greatest  silver  mine  in  the  world.  He  worked  his 
required  shift  daily,  then  eight  hours  was  devoted  to  prospecting  and  in  the 
study  of  geology.  While  working  in  the  mine,  he  learned  everything  he  could 
regarding  the  practical  working  of  mines. 

When  he  studied  in  the  evenings  he  did  that  work  just  as  he  did  all  his 
other  work,  and  as  he  has  since,  working  with  one  object  in  view  and  that  was 
to  achieve  success.  His  prospecting  was  at  last  rewarded.  Seven  years  was 
devoted  to  the  hardest  kind  of  hard  work,  then  the  discovery  of  the  metal  he 
had  so  long  sought  and  the  discovery  of  which  made  him  a  great  fortune.  The 
Mayflower  Mine  was  opened  after  many  vicissitudes,  after  many  obstacles  were 
overcome.  The  return  from  his  first  shipment  came  in  the  shape  of  $20,000. 
From  this  fortune  his  first  work  was  to  provide  a  home  for  his  parents  and  a 
competence  for  life. 

His  mine  continued  to  pay.  He  became  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Silver 
King  properties,  the  greatest  silver  mine  in  the  United  States,  which  ownership 
he  still  retains,  although  the  property  has  changed  its  name  to  the  Silver  King 
Coalition.  These  properties  made  him  a  millionaire.  The  wealth  which  has  come 
to  him  from  the  Silver  King  has  been  reinvested  in  Utah,  largely  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  his  holdings  of  real  estate  include  the  choicest  of  Salt  Lake  realty. 

In  the  political  field  Mr.  Kearns  has  served  his  people  as  a  member  of  the 
Park  City  council,  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  Utah,  delegate  to  the 
Republican  National  Convention  of  1896  and  1900,  and  Senator  of  the  United 
States  from  Utah  from  March,  1901,  to  March,  1905. 

Senator  Kearns  is  interested  in  various  other  enterprises  besides  his  vast 
mining  interests.  He  is  a  heavy  stockholder  and  director  in  the  San  Pedro, 
Los  Angeles  and  Salt  Lake  Railroad;  is  one  of  the  owTners  of  the  Salt  Lake 
"Tribune,"  and  in  other  industries.  He  is  a  firm  believer  in  Utah  and  has  done 
everything  in  his  power  to  aid  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  State  and*  the  City  of 
Salt  Lake. 

Senator  Kearns  is  married,  the  maiden  name  of  his  wife  being  Jennie  Judge, 
a  native  of  New  York  State.  Three  children  have  been  born  them,  two  sons 
and  a  daughter,  Edmund  J.,  Thomas  F.,  and  Helen  M.,  all  living.  Senator 
and  Mrs.  Kearns  are  very  charitable.  Their  charity  is  bestowed  without  osten- 
tation. Hundreds  of  orphan  children  in  Utah  and  elsewhere  shower  blessings 
upon  Senator  and  Mrs.  Kearns  for  benefactions  shown  in  the  Kearns-St.  Ann's 
orphanage  which  they  have  provided  for. 

As  an  employer  Senator  Kearns  has  the  good  will  of  every  one  of  his  hun- 
dreds of  employees.  Everything  about  the  various  industries  in  which  he  is 
interested  has  been  put  in  with  one  object  in  view,  that  is,  the  comfort  of  his 
employees,  so  that  work  can  be  done  with  ease  and  rapidity. 

Senator  Kearns  and  his  family  reside  in  a  magnificent  home  on  East  Brig- 
ham  Street,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  at  one  of  the  finest  ranches  in  California, 
near  Santa  Rosa. 

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EZRA     THOMPSON 


EZRA  THOMPSON 

One  of  the  real  pioneers  of  Utah  and  a  citizen  who  has  done  much 
for  his  native  place  is  Ezra  Thompson,  who  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
on  July  17,  1850.  His  father  was  Ezra  Thompson,  a -millwright  in 
humble  circumstances,  and  his  mother  was  Lois  Trumbull  Thompson. 
Young  Thompson  passed  his  early  boyhood  in  his  native  town,  attending 
public  school  in  winter  and  in  summer  herding  and  working  at  anything 
he  could  find,  whereby  he  could  contribute  to  the  support  of  the  house- 
hold. Ezra  was  a  strong,  athletic  boy,  very  fond  of  manly  sports,  and 
was  a  great  baseball  player  in  his  youth.  Being  naturally  inclined  to 
outdoor  pursuits,  he  adopted  the  vocation  of  a  freighter,  a  very  lucrative 
one  in  those  days.  From  freighting  supplies  he  drifted  into  mining, 
at  which  he  made  his  fortune.  His  principal  field  of  operations  was  the 
Park  City  District,  where  he  resided  for  fifteen  years  and  became 
connected  with  some  of  the  greatest  mines  in  that  productive  district. 
Among  his  experiences  was  a  heavy  and  protracted  law  suit  with  the 
owners  of  the  Silver  King.  He  made  a  hard  fight,  but,  the  decision 
going  against  him,  he  accepted  it  like  the  strong  man  that  he  is,  and 
has  never  cherished  any  animosity  over  the  result.  On  February  14, 
1884,  Mr.  Thompson  was  married  to  Miss  Emily  Pugsley,  daughter  of 
Philip  Pugsley,  a  well-known  manufacturer  and  mining  man,  since 
deceased.  They  are  the  parents  of  four  children;  namely,  Lynn  H., 
Norinne,  Ezra  P.,  and  Clyde  R.  Thompson.  The  family  resides  in  a 
beautiful  residence  on  East  South  Temple  Street,  the  fashionable  resi- 
dence quarter  of  the  city.  Mr.  Thompson  served  two  terms  in  the  city 
council  of  Park  City,  and  was  for  two  terms  mayor  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
a  position  he  filled  with  honor,  dignity  and  great  executive  ability.  He 
was  first  elected  in  1899,  and  served  until  1904.  He  was  re-elected  by 
the  American  party,  of  which  he  is  a  member.  Since  returning  to 
private  life,  Mr.  Thompson  has  devoted  himself  to  his  mining  interests, 
real-estate  holdings,  and  other  business  affairs,  which  occupy  his  time 
fully.  He  is  a  lover  of  good  horses,  and  personally  very  popular  and  of 
a  charitable  and  kindly  nature.  Mr.  Thompson  is  president  of  the  Idaho 
Gold  Mining  and  Milling  Company,  and  president  of  the  Cardiff  Mining 
and  Milling  Company,  both  very  productive  and  valuable  mining 
properties.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club  and  Commercial  Club  of 
Salt  Lake  City. 


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THOMAS    WEIR 


THOMAS  WEIR 

Thomas  Weir  was  born  February  14th,  1855,  near  Cambridge,  Wash- 
ington County,  New  York ;  his  father,  John  Weir,  a  carriage  maker ;  his 
mother,  Agnes  Glover. 

He  obtained  an  academic  course  at  Washington  County  Academy,  at 
Cambridge,  New  York,  and  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class  in  1876, 
from  Union  College  in  mining  and  civil  engineering.  Mr.  Weir  went 
from  New  York  to  Nebraska  in  March,  1877,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year 
was  appointed  the  assistant  engineer  of  the  Missouri  River  improve- 
ment work  at  that  point.  He  was  transferred  to  the  Mississippi  River 
Commission  in  1878,  and  given  charge  of  work  in  the  lower  river. 

In  1879  he  resigned  and  went  to  Leadville,  Colo.,  and  in  1880  was 
appointed  assistant  manager  of  the  A.  Y.  Mine,  and  three  years  later 
was  appointed  general  manager  of  the  A.  Y.  mine  and  Minnie  mine, 
both  of  which  properties  became  prominent  dividend-payers  under  his 
management.  From  1888  to  the  summer  of  1893,  he  was  general  man- 
ager of  the  Granite  Mountain  Mining  Company's  properties  at  Granite, 
Montana. 

Mr.  Weir  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  February  24,  1894,  and  in  1896 
secured  the  ground  in  Bingham  that  formed  the  basis  of  the  Highland 
Boy  Mining  Company  and  became  its  general  manager.  He  erected 
the  first  Bleichent  tramway  in  Utah.  In  1899  he  secured  the  ground  and 
became  the  manager  of  the  Boston  Consolidated  Mining  Company.  He 
is  also  a  director  of  the  Ohio  Copper  Company,  president  of  the  Ajax 
Mining  Company,  and  vice-president  of  Walker  Brothers'  Bank.  He 
has  never  held  political  office,  but  he  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club, 
the  Salt  Lake  Commercial  Club,  and  an  elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Mr.  Weir  was  married  June  15th,  1886,  to  Miss  Clara  Pond  Tread- 
way,  in  Denver,  Colo.  The  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Weir  is  among  the 
stateliest  of  the  many  handsome  residences  that  ornament  that  handsome 
street,  the  number  being  519  East  Brigham  Street.  It  occupies  an  acre 
and  a  quarter  of  ground  on  the  corner  of  Brigham  and  "F"  Streets, 
the  extensive  velvet  lawn  and  perfectly  kept  surroundings  making  it  one 
of  the  most  attractive  residences  in  the  city.  The  house  is  large  and 
commodious,  is  of  native,  creamy  colored  sandstone,  has  a  total  of  fifteen 
rooms,  is  of  Colonial  style  and  provided  with  all  the  modern  conven- 
iences which  contribute  to  comfort  and  beautv. 


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COL.  THOS.   G.   WEBBER 


COL.  THOMAS  G.  WEBBER 

Colonel  Thomas  G.  Webber  has  been  for  nearly  forty  years  one  of  the  most 
progressive  and  busiest  of  men  in  Utah.  He  has  led  an  active  business  life  and, 
as  director  and  general  manager  of  the  Zion's  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institu- 
tion, and  many  other  important  interests  in  and  about  Salt  Lake  City,  he  has 
done  much  towards  the  upbuilding  of  Utah. 

Colonel  Webber  was  born  in  Exeter,  England,  September,  1836,  of  an  old 
Devonshire  family  living  for  centuries  in  the  vicinity  of  that  ancient  town. 
His  parents  were  Thomas  Bray  Webber  and  Charlotte  B.  Webber.  His  father 
was  a  scientific  man,  a  civil  engineer  and  government  superintendent  of  the 
telegraph  lines  in  Devon  and  Cornwall,  and  the  son  followed  the  father's  profes- 
sion, and  was  trained  in  that  line,  being  placed  in  an  engineer's  office  shortly 
after  the  death  of  his  mother  when  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age.  While  studying 
his  profession  the  opportunities  of  the  new  world  appealed  to  him  and  he 
made  up  his  mind  to  go  to  the  United  States.  Therefore,  in  1855,  he  sailed 
for  America  and  shortly  after  he  arrived  he  opened  an  engineer's  and  sur- 
veyor's office.  In  1857,  when  the  Government  troops,  under  General  Albert 
Sydney  Johnston,  were  ordered  to  Utah,  Colonel  Webber,  then  a  youth  of 
twenty,  entered  the  United  States  army.  He  served  in  Arizona  and  California 
until  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  wThen  he  went  by  way  of  Panama  with  a 
portion  of  his  regiment,  marching  to  Fortress  Monroe,  and,  under  McClellan, 
Burnside,  Hooker  and  Meade,  he  participated  in  the  Peninsular  and  other 
campaigns,  including  the  battles  of  Yorktown,  Williamsburgh,  Gaines  Mill, 
White  Oak  Swamp,  Fredericksburg,  Kelly's  Ford,  Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg 
and  Williamsport,  and  saw  plenty  of  active  service.  He  remained  with  the  army 
until  the  fall  of  1863,  passing  through  the  various  grades  and  becoming  com- 
missary quartermaster  and  adjutant  of  his  regiment. 

Colonel  Webber  first  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1864,  by  stage  coach  from 
Atchison,  Kansas.  On  May  25,  1867,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Rich- 
ards, a  daughter  of  Franklin  D.  Richards,  who  was  a  patriot  and  a  brigadier- 
general  in  the  Utah  Militia.  Colonel  Webber  afterwards  became  a  lieutenant- 
colonel  of  artillery,  and  later  adjutant  of  the  Second  Brigade  and  a  member  of 
General  Richards'  staff. 

In  1864  he  became,  with  T.  B.  H.  Stenhouse,  one  of  the  founders  of  "The 
Salt  Lake  Daily  Telegraph,"  the  first  issue  of  which  appeared  on  the  Fourth 
of  July,  of  that  year.  Mr.  Webber  was  business  manager  and  remained  with 
the  paper  until  its  removal  to  Ogden  in  1869,  when  he  left  to  accept  a  position 
with  Zion's  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution.  He  was  destined  for  early 
promotion,  and  in  October,  1871,  he  was  chosen  secretary,  and  shortly  after, 
treasurer  of  the  Z.  C.  M.  I.  In  1876  Colonel  Webber  went  abroad  on  a  religious 
mission,  and  toured  England,  France,  and  Italy,  returning  to  America  in  1878 
to  assist  in  the  settlement  of  the  late  Brigham  Young's  estate.  He  again  took 
up  the  position  of  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Z.  C.  M.  I.,  was  afterwards 
elected  manager,  and  has  been  actively  identified  with  its  interest  up  to  the 
present  time. 

Colonel  Webber  is  president  of  the  Zion's  Benefit  Building  Society,  director 
in  the  Zion  's  Savings  Bank  and  Trust  Company,  Home  Fire  Insurance  Company, 
Postal  Telegraph  Company,  and  Utah  Light  and  Railway  Company.  He  was 
councilman  from  the  Second  Municipal  Ward  for  two  years,  and  alderman  for 
four  years.  He  was  president  of  the  Salt  Lake  and  Ogden  Gas  and  Electric 
Light  Company  from  1896  to  1898,  and  of  the  Salt  Lake  Public  Library  from 
1897  to  1904;  vice-president  of  the  Utah  Light  and  Power  Company  from  1898 
to  1903,  and  a  director  of  the  Utah  Sugar  Company  from  1899  to  1902. 

Colonel  Webber  is  the  father  of  six  children,  William  T.  F.,  Shirley  T.  B., 
Charlotte  B.  R.,  Georgiana  M.  B.,  Ethelyn  E.  L.  F.,  and  Mildred  R.  Webber. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  and  Commercial  clubs,  and  resides  at  131  Second 
Avenue,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  Colonel  Webber  is  public-spirited,  liberal  and 
charitable,  and  a  man  of  sterling  qualities  and  kindly  disposition,  and  a  credit 
to  any  community. 

83 


SAMUEL  NEWHOTJSE 


SAMUEL  NEWHOUSE 

Ask  the  ordinary  citizen  of  Salt  Lake  City  what  one  man  is  doing  more  than  any 
other  man  for  the  commercial  and  industrial  advancement  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  Utah, 
and  almost  without  hesitation  the  answer  will  be,  "Samuel  Newhouse."  And  while  history 
alone  can  declare  the  correctness  of  the  impression,  certain  it  is  that  Mr.  Newhouse  has 
been  both  energetic  and  successful  in  his  endeavors  in  behalf  of  the  inter-mountain  region. 

As  a  mining  man,  Mr.  Newhouse  knows  the  business,  from  the  work  of  the  day-laborer 
in  the  stope  to  that  of  financing  the  immense  enterprises  necessary  to  produce  on  a  paying 
basis  that  most  stubborn  of  all  metals — copper.  In  that  industry  he  has  surrounded  him- 
self by  a  staff  of  able  assistants.  And  he  has  ever  been  ready  to  branch  out  into  new  fields, 
where  he  has  been  uniformly  successful,  or  to  try  new  methods,  where  also  victory  over 
the  refractory  forces  of  Mother  Earth  has  come,  though  the  experiments  may  have  cost 
many  thousands  of  dollars. 

But  it  is  not  in  mining  alone  in  the  West  that  Mr.  Newhouse  has  shown  his  faith, 
or  that  he  has  made  money.  The  wealth  that  after  years  of  toil  and  hardship  came  to 
him  in  abundance,  has  neither  been  hoarded  nor  been  invested  where  it  would  benefit  some 
other  part  of  the  country.  In  Salt  Lake  City  Mr.  Newhouse  is  known  as  the  first  man  who 
had  the  energy  and  the  faith  in  the  city  sufficient  to  build  a  real  sky-scraper.  He  built 
two  of  them.  He  has  invested  heavily  in  residence  property  in  the  most  beautiful  quarter 
of  the  city.  He  is  building  a  hotel  to  surpass  anything  of  its  kind  west  of  the  Mississippi. 
His  energy  has  interested  him  in  all  lines  of  business  in  the  city,  and  he  has  won  success 
in  all  in  which  he  has  been  interested.  Better  still,  such  is  the  reputation  for  business 
acumen  which  this  man  has  won  in  the  money  marts  of  the  world,  that  he  is  able  to  attract 
an  immense  amount  of  capital  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  to  the  upbuilding  of  the  industries  of 
the  inter-mountain  region. 

Identified  though  he  is  with  the  West,  and  almost  its  every  mining  field,  Mr.  New- 
house  is  a  product  of  the  East.  He  was  born  in  New  York  City,  in  1854,  and  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Philadelphia.  He  read  law  for  a  time,  and  later  had  ambitions  in 
the  journalistic  field.  It  was  as  such  that  he  came  to  Colorado,  in  1879,  but  he  soon 
turned  his  attention  from  the  Leadville  newspaper  to  the  freighting  business,  and  thence 
it  was  but  an  easy  step  to  the  mines,  where  he  won  most  success. 

In  1883  Mr.  Newhouse  married  Miss  Ida  H.  Stingley,  of  a  Virginia  family  connected 
with  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  who  later  became  president. 
In  1885  he  became  most  definitely  connected  with  the  mining  business,  and  a  power  first  in 
Colorado,  and  then  in  the  entire  inter-mountain  mining  sections. 

His  interests  being  most  closely  connected  with  mining  fields,  then  new,  Mr.  Newhouse 
found  Salt  Lake  City  more  central  to  his  properties  than  Denver,  and  he  came  here  in  1896, 
having  gained  control  of  his  first  great  Utah  property,  the  Highland  Boy  Mine  at  Bingham, 
now  incorporated  as  the  Utah  Consolidated.  Of  this  company,  Standard  Oil  later  secured 
the  controlling  interest,  at  a  price,  it  is  said,  of  $6,000,000.  Mr.  Newhouse's  interests  now 
include  such  well-known  names  in  the  mining  field  as  the  Boston  Consolidated,  the  Newhouse 
and  Cactus  mines,  and  the  town  of  Newhouse,  Utah;  the  Newhouse  tunnel,  at  I. hi  1m  Springs; 
the  Denver  &  Inter-Mountain  Railway  Company,  and  in  addition,  numerous  mining  properties, 
in  Colorado,  Utah  and  California.  He  has  extensive  real  estate  holdings  in  New  York  as  well 
as  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  has  business  offices  in  both  New  York  and  London,  and  his  name  is 
one  to  conjure  with  among  the  financiers  of  the  world's  capitals,  as  it  is  among  the  hardy 
mining  men  who  are  wresting  wealth  from  the  interior  of  the  Rockies. 

Mr.  Newhouse's  public  spirit  has  led  him  to  take  part  in  many  of  the  activities  of 
the  city  and  State.  He  is  a  prominent  supporter  of  the  Commercial  Club  and  of  the 
Mining  Exchange,  and  it  was  through  his  liberal  donations  that  these  two  organizations 
were  enabled  to  plan  and  erect  suitable  homes  for  themselves.  He  is  known  as  a  liberal 
giver  to  charity,  but  is  not  ostentatious  in  tliis  respect.  To  his  friends  he  is  an  amiable 
and  pleasing  acquaintance  as  well  as  a  man  of  remarkable  ability,  and  versatility  in  ideas. 

Mr.  Newhouse  has  a  beautiful  home  on  South  Temple  Street,  the  architectural  beauty  of 
which  has  made  it  an  object  of  admiration  to  stranger  and  citizen  alike. 


85 


M.  H.   WALKER 


MATTHEW  H.  WALKER 

Matthew  H.  Walker  is  one  of  the  real  pioneers  of  Utah,  and  the 
name  of  Walker  is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  respected  in  the  inter- 
mountain  region.  Mr.  Walker  has  gone  through  the  rigors  and  hard- 
ships of  the  early  settlers  of  Utah  and  by  his  own  perseverance  and 
industry  has  risen,  and  to-day  is  one  of  the  leading  financiers  and  busi- 
ness men  of  the  Western  country. 

Matthew  H.  Walker  is  a  son  of  Matthew  and  Mercy  Long  Walker. 
His  father  was  a  woolen  merchant  and  hotel  proprietor  at  Yorkshire, 
England,  where  Matthew  H.  was  born  January  16,  1845.  When  but 
five  years  of  age  he  emigrated  to  America,  and  in  1852  he  took  the  long 
and  tedious  wagon  journey  across  the  country  to  Salt  Lake  City,  being 
but  seven  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  arrival.  He  has  seen  the  evolution 
of  this  great  city  from  a  vast  wilderness  to  the  splendid  city  it  .is  to-day, 
and  to  him  much  of  the  credit  of  its  magnificent  upbuilding  belongs; 
because  he  was  ever  foremost  and  the  first  to  come  to  the  front  with  his 
purse  and  brains  when  any  progressive  movement  was  at  hand. 

His  education  was  meager,  as  in  those  days  they  had  to  do  the  best 
they  could  with  the  facilities  they  had  for  schools.  But  Mr.  Walker 
managed  to  secure  enough  education  to  win  for  himself  the  distinction 
of  being  one  of  Utah 's  most  distinguished  and  successful  citizens,  and  to 
occupy  a  position  in  the  financial  and  mercantile  world  second  to  none  in 
the  inter-mountain  region. 

Mr.  Walker  is  the  head  of  the  firm  of  Walker  Brothers,  Bankers, 
for  fifty  years  one  of  the  largest  financial  institutions  in  Utah,  estab- 
lished in  1859,  and  a  stockholder  in  Walker  Bros.  Dry  Goods  Company. 
He  is  actively  connected  with  the  Opex  Mines  Company,  Honerine 
Extension  Mining  Company,  and  many  other  mining  companies  through- 
out the  inter-mountain  region.  Mr.  Walker  has  never  held  political 
office  of  any  kind,  devoting  his  entire  time  and  attention  to  his  many 
business  enterprises. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club,  Commercial  Club,  Country  Club, 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and  the  Wasatch  Lodge  of 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  Mr.  Walker  was  married  January  1,  1865, 
to  his  first  wife,  who  died  in  1896,  and  in  1897  he  married  his  present 
wife.  He  is  the  father  of  two  children,  John  H.  and  Frances  Glen 
Walker. 

Mr.  Walker  is  to-day  rated  as  one  of  the  foremost  financiers  and  most 
public-spirited  citizens  of  Utah.  The  only  public  office  he  ever  held  was 
that  of  member  of  the  Board  of  Education,  elected  in  and  holding  the 
position  from  1898  until  1902. 

87 


D.   C.   JACKLING 


DANIEL  C.  JACKLING 

The  position  occupied  in  the  mining  world  by  Mr.  D.  C.  Jackling  is  unique,  not  only 
for  the  rather  brief  period  of  time  in  which  it  has  been  attained,  but  because  in  some 
respects  it  stands  singularly  alone.  Most  noted  mining  men  of  the  day  owe  recognition 
to  their  ability  in  determining  the  existence  and  value  of  ore  bodies  and  their  relation 
to  mineralogical  and  geographical  conditions.  Mr.  Jackling's  pre-eminence  is  due  to  his 
work  in  making  commercially  profitable  bodies  of  ore  that  at  large  would  be  deemed  almost 
worthless.  In  fact  his  success  in  this  respect  has  been  so  stupendous  as  to  make  the  works 
directed  by  him  unrivalled  in  their  kind.  It  may  be  said  that  the  Utah  Copper  Company, 
because  of  Mr.  Jackling's  metallurgical  knowledge,  covering  the  widest  and  most  practical 
grasp  of  the  subject,  was  really  the  pioneer  in  making  commercially  profitable  the  handlin» 
of  large  bodies  of  copper  ore  of  such  low  grade  as  had  previously  been  looked  upon  as 
almost  waste.  From  a  three  hundred  ton  mill  which  he  erected  for  experimental  purposes, 
one  now  handling  eight  hundred  tons  is  in  operation  in  Bingham  Canyon,  and  another  one 
with  a  capacity  of  seven  thousand  tons  daily  is  running  at  Garfield,  in  this  county  also. 
When  the  small  quantity  of  copper  in  the  ore  is  considered,  the  vast  tonnage  of  copper  pro- 
duced is  little  less  than  marvelous. 

Of  the  Utah  Copper  Company  Mr.  Jackling  is  vice-president  and  general  manager,  as 
well  as  being  chairman  of  its  executive  committee.  He  holds  a  like  position  with  the  Ray 
Consolidated  Copper  Company.  The  mines  of  the  Ray  Consolidated  Company,  situated  at 
Kelvin,  Arizona,  are  not  unlike,  in  the  ores  they  carry,  those  of  the  Utah  Copper  Com- 
pany, being  low  grade.  The  difficulty,  however,  has  been  the  distance  from  railroad  trans* 
portation.  Having  knowledge  of  Mr.  Jackling's  work  in  connection  with  the  ores  of  the 
Utah  Copper  Mines,  and  recognizing  their  similarity  to  those  of  the  Ray  Consolidated  Mines, 
the  owners  of  the  latter  property  naturally  turned  to  Mr.  Jackling  for  his  services  in  its 
development.  That  work  is  now  in  progress,  with  the  promise  of  results  no  less  remarkable 
(not  alone  in  the  profits  to  be  made,  but  in  the  magnitude  of  the  production)  than  those 
of  the  Utah  Copper  Company. 

Mr.  Jackling  was  born  near  Appleton  City,  Missouri,  in  1869.  He  is  a  son  of  Daniel 
Jackling,  a  successful  merchant,  and  Lydia  Jane  Dunn.  He  was  educated  in  the  University 
of  Missouri  and  the  Missouri  School  of  Mines,  and  came  to  Utah  from  Colorado  in  January, 
1896,  shortly  after  being  married.  His  business  activities  have  brought  him  into  promi- 
nence in  many  directions,  but  naturally  the  remarkable  success  which  followed  his  handling 
of  the  Utah  Copper  Company's  properties  has  won  for  him  a  recognition  that  is  equalled 
by  very  few  men  in  any  line.  Besides  his  connection  with  the  Utah  Copper  Company  and  the 
Ray  Consolidated  Copper  Company,  he  is  a  director  and  heavy  stockholder  in  the  United  States 
Sugar  &  Land  Company  of  Garden  City,  Kansas,  in  the  Salt  Lake  Security  &  Trust  Com- 
pany, in  the  Utah  Fire  Clay  Company,  and  in  the  Garfield  Banking  Company.  He  is  also 
a  director  and  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Utah  Hotel  Company,  and  is 
vice-chairman  of  the  Utah  Commission  of  the  Alaska-Yukon-Pacific  Exposition. 

While  in  Colorado  Mr.  Jackling  served  two  years  on  the  staff  of  Governor  James  H. 
Peabody.  In  selecting  his  official  family  recently,  Governor  Spry  of  this  State  appointed 
Mr.  Jackling  general  inspector  of  target  practice,  with  the  rank  of  colonel.  He  is  president 
of  the  Alta  Club,  the  oldest  and  most  respected  club  in  this  city,  a  member  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Mining  Engineers,  a  member  of  the  El  Paso  Club  of  Colorado  Springs,  of  the 
Commercial  Club  of  this  city,  and  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  Club  of  New  York  City. 

In  every  respect  Mr.  Jackling  is  a  liberal,  enterprising  citizen.  Had  the  last  Mining 
Congress,  held  in  Pittsburg  in  1908,  given  to  Utah  the  headquarters  for  the  Congress, 
Mr.  Jackling  was  pledged  to  raise  $50,000  toward  the  construction  of  the  Mining  Temple 
therefor. 

Mr.  Jackling  is  a  man  of  broad  views  and  is  mentally  equipped  far  beyond  the  average. 
He  has  a  truly  remarkable  grasp  of  subjects  (not  confined  to  his  special  line)  in  their 
relation  to  the  interests  of  mankind  generally.  It  is  difficult  to  imagine  a  vocation  in  life, 
or  a  calling,  in  which  Mr.  Jackling,  with  his  intellectual  force,  would  not  be  eminently 
successful.  In  this  respect  he  is  distinguished  from  most  notables,  who  are  capable  of 
doing  only  one  thing  very  well.  Upon  whatever  subject  the  force  of  his  mind  is  turned,  a 
clarity  of  vision  is  developed  and  a  direction  of  energy  that  assure  successful  results. 

Mr.  Jackling  is  a  young  man,  and  may  well  be  recognized  and  reckoned  with  as  one  of 
the  potent  forces  of  our  growing  State,  if  not  of  the  nation.  With  Mrs.  Jackling  he  resides 
in  a  commodious  home  at  No.  731  East  Brigham  Street.  They  have  no  children. 


89 


JOHN  E.  DOOLY 


JOHN  E.  DOOLY 

Few  men  are  better  known  on  the  Pacific  Coast  and  in  the  State  of 
Utah  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  John  E.  Dooly. 

He  was  born  June  8, 1841,  in  the  little  town  of  Benton,  Lake  County, 
Illinois,  his  father  being  Richard  W.  Dooly,  a  farmer,  and  his  mother, 
Catherine  Lonergan  Dooly. 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  State.  He 
embarked  from  the  City  of  New  York  in  his  twenty-first  year  for 
California,  on  the  steamship  " Illinois"  for  the  Isthmus  of  Panama, 
thence  to  San  Francisco  on  the  steamship  ' '  Moses  Taylor, ' '  better  known 
to  Calif ornians  as  the  "Rolling  Moses." 

Mr.  Dooly  arrived  in  California  in  1863  and  engaged  in  various  pur- 
suits in  the  vicinity  of  San  Francisco  and  Stockton.  In  1865  he  obtained 
a  position  with  Wells  Fargo  &  Company  in  Sacramento,  California,  in 
which  he  continued  until  1869  when  he  was  appointed  agent  of  Wells 
Fargo  &  Company  at  "Coburn,"  California,  renamed  Truckee  after 
the  completion  of  the  Central  Pacific  Railroad.  Leaving  Truckee  in 
May,  1872,  he  visited  Europe,  returning  early  in  1873,  when  he  was 
appointed  agent  of  Wells  Fargo  &  Co.  at  Ogden,  Utah,  which  at  that 
time  was  the  only  transfer  office  of  the  express  company.  While  repre- 
senting Wells  Fargo  &  Co.  at  Ogden,  he  established  the  first  bank 
opened  in  the  Junction  City,  under  the  name  of  "  J.  E.  Dooly  &  Com- 
pany." In  1877  he  was  appointed  cashier  of  Wells  Fargo  &  Co.  Bank, 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  represented  the  financial  interests  of  the  corporation 
in  Utah  until  1902,  a  period  of  twenty-six  years. 

Mr.  Dooly  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  "The  Utah  National  Bank 
of  Ogden"  in  1883,  and  has  been  its  president  for  the  past  twenty-five 
years.  In  addition  to  his  banking  interests,  Mr.  Dooly  is  largely  inter- 
ested in  real  estate  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Ogden  and  in  various  counties 
in  the  State,  and  is  prominently  identified  with  many  large  corpora- 
tions, among  which  are  the  Dooly  Block,  the  Island  Improvement 
Company,  the  Syndicate  Investment  Company,  the  John  E.  Dooly 
Company,  and  several  others. 

On  September  17,  1876,  Mr.  Dooly  was  married  to  Eleanor  M.  Tay- 
lor, who  died  May  23,  1894.  The  issue  of  this  marriage  was  Eleanor  F. 
(Mrs.  Ernest  Bamberger),  Margaret  L.,  Ethel  C.,  John  E.,  and  Ruth 
A.  Dooly  (who  died  on  May  30th,  1899). 

He  subsequently  married  May  V.  Cavanaugh  on  October  17,  1897, 
the  issue  of  which  marriage  was  Mary  C.  and  Richard  W.  Dooly. 

He  has  at  all  times  manifested  a  forceful,  independent  and  aggressive 
interest  in  public  affairs,  and  has  filled  with  credit  to  himself  a  number 
of  prominent  positions  in  public  life,  among  which  were:  President  of 
the  Salt  Lake  City  Board  of  Education;  regent  of  the  University  of 
Utah;  chairman  of  the  Territorial  Board  of  Equalization;  chairman  of 
the  Board  of  Public  Works;  chairman  of  the  Republican  State  Cen- 
tral committee  and  a  member  of  the  city  council. 

He  is  a  charter  member  of  both  the  Alta  and  Commercial  Clubs  of 
Salt  Lake  City. 

He  owns  a  beautiful  home  situate  on  a  spacious  and  eligible  site  at 
the  southeast  corner  of  South  Temple  and  Fifth  East  Streets. 

Mr.  Dooly  is  favorably  and  extensively  known  in  business  circles, 
and  with  his  family  enjoys  a  prominent  social  position  throughout  the 
inter-mountain  States. 

91 


JOHN  DERST 


JOHN  BERN 

One  of  the  solid  and  substantial  citizens  of  Salt  Lake  City  who  have 
done  much  in  the  way  of  development  of  the  mineral  wealth  of  Utah, 
is  John  Dern.  A  native  of  Germany,  he  came  to  America  in  1865  when 
only  fifteen  years  of  age,  and,  like  many  another  man  who  has  won 
fame  and  fortune,  secured  his  start  on  the  farm  and  completed  his 
education  in  the  schools  of  Illinois.  In  1869  he  went  to  Fremont, 
Nebraska,  shortly  after  the  completion  of  the  Union  Pacific  Eailroad, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming  until  1879.  Then,  extending  his  lines 
of  activity,  he  engaged  in  the  grain,  lumber,  coal  and  live-stock  busi- 
ness, and  later  in  the  field  of  banking.  In  1888  he  was  elected  State 
Senator  from  the  Tenth  Senatorial  District  of  Nebraska,  and  from  1890 
to  1894  was  the  county  treasurer  of  Dodge  County,  that  State. 

In  1890  his  attention  was  turned  to  mining  investments  in  Utah,  and 
while  still  a  resident  of  Nebraska  he  became  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Consolidated  Mercur  Gold  Mines  Company,  a  property  which,  under 
his  direction,  has  been  developed  until  it  is  regarded  as  a  bonanza  of 
Utah  and  has  the  record  of  paying  $3,385,000  in  dividends.  Mr.  Dern 
is  the  president  of  this  property;  and  is  also  largely  interested  in  Tintic 
properties,  being  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Uncle  Sam 
Consolidated  Mining  Company  at  Tintic;  vice-president  and  manager 
of  the  Lower  Mammoth  Mining  Company  of  the  same  district;  presi- 
dent and  general  manager  of  the  May  Day  Mining  and  Milling  Company, 
and  holding  a  directorship  and  heavy  interests  in  numerous  mining 
properties  in  other  districts  of  Utah  and  Nevada.  He  is  a  large  investor 
in  Salt  Lake  City  Realty,  and  has  numerous  commercial  interests  in 
in  this  city  as  well  as  in  Nebraska,  where  he  formerly  resided.  He  is  con- 
fident that  Salt  Lake  City  will  become  the  metropolis  of  the  inter- 
mountain  region,  is  broad-minded,  public-spirited,  and  takes  an  active 
interest  in  every  move  that  makes  for  the  welfare  of  the  city  and  State. 
He  is  prominently  identified  with  the  masonic  fraternity.  He  is  a  trus- 
tee of  the  Agricultural  College  of  Utah  and  a  member  of  the  Alta  and 
Commercial  clubs  of  Salt  Lake  City. 


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HEBEK    M.    WELLS 


HEBER  M.  WELLS 

Heber  M.  Wells  bears  the  honored  distinction  of  having  been  the 
first  Governor  of  the  State  of  Utah.  He  was  elected  in  the  general  elec- 
tion in  1895,  after  the  ratification  of  the  Constitution,  for  a  term  of  five 
years,  assuming  office  January  6,  1896,  and  was  subsequently  elected  for 
a  second  term  of  four  years,  during  which  period  the  State  of  Utah 
progressed  rapidly. 

His  success  has  been  due  not  less  to  his  high  qualities  of  heart  and 
mind  than  to  his  engaging  personality.  He  brought  to  the  office  a  dig- 
nity and  aptitude  for  business  affairs  and  executive  ability  that  have 
never  been  excelled  by  any  incumbent  of  that  high  office,  and  was  a  model 
executive  in  every  sense  of  the  word.  When  it  is  recalled  that  there 
were  delicate  and  perplexing  problems  which  had  been  associated  with 
the  name  of  Utah  for  over  half  a  century,  the  obligations  resting  on  the 
shoulders  of  the  young  governor  can  readily  be  realized,  and  how  well 
he  discharged  his  duties  history  vividly  recalls.  His  administration  was 
so  satisfactory  to  his  constituents  that  he  was  renominated  by  acclama- 
tion by  his  party  for  a  second  term.  The  keynote  of  his  success  lay  in 
the  fact  that  he  was  Governor  of  the  whole  people,  steadfastly  refusing 
to  utilize  his  exalted  position  for  partisan  advantage  or  private  gain.  In 
fact,  his  whole  life  has  been  devoted  to  harmonizing  the  contending  ele- 
ments of  the  community  in  which  he  was  born,  and  seeking  to  bring 
about  that  amity  and  mutual  confidence  which  he  has  always  insisted  was 
so  necessary  for  the  proper  upbuilding  of  the  State. 

Mr.  Wells  is  from  a  family  of  pioneers  whose  name  has  always 
been  one  of  the  most  prominent  in  Utah.  His  father,  Daniel  H.  Wells, 
was  a  prominent  lumberman,  a  former  mayor  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
one  of  the  most  influential  leaders  of  the  Mormon  church.  His  mother 
was  Martha  Harris  Wells.  Heber  M.  Wells  is  a  native  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  born  August  11,  1859,  and  was  educated  at  the  University  of  Utah. 
After  graduating  he  immediately  entered  business  life  and  has  led 
an  active  life  and  been  prominently  identified  with  the  development  and 
growth  of  Utah  up  to  the  present  day. 

Mr.  Wells  is  manager  of  the  Utah  Savings  &  Trust  Company,  a 
director  in  the  State  Bank  of  Utah,  two  of  the  most  prominent  and 
progressive  financial  institutions  in  the  State.  He  has  served  as  recorder 
and  auditor  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  has  always  been  a  leader  in  munic- 
ipal and  State  affairs.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club,  Commercial 
Club,  Sons  of  American  Revolution  and  Sons  of  Utah  Pioneers. 

Mr.  Wells  was  married  first  to  Mary  Elizabeth  Beatie,  who  died  in 
1888,  and  four  years  later  he  married  Teresa  Clawson,  who  died  in 
1897,  and  in  1901  he  married  his  present  wife,  who  was  Miss  Emily 
Katz.  He  is  the  father  of  seven  children,  namely:  Manning  B.,  Heber 
D.,  Mary  B.,  Martha,  Florence,  John  K.  and  Burton  K.  Wells.  He 
resides  at  61  First  Avenue,  Salt  Lake  City. 

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J.    S.    BKA2TSFOKD 


JOHN  S.  BRANSFOBD 

A  Missourian  by  birth,  a  Utahan  by  adoption ;  a  progressive,  public- 
spirited  citizen,  who  believes  in  the  present  and  has  faith  in  the  future 
of  Salt  Lake  City— this  is  John  Samuel  Bransford,  Mayor  of  Salt  Lake 
City. 

Mayor  Bransford  is  fifty-three  years  of  age.  He  was  born  in  Rich- 
mond, Ray  County,  Missouri,  August  26,  1856.  His  father,  Milford 
Bard  Bransford,  was  of  English  descent.  His  mother,  Sarah  Allen 
Cooper,  was  of  German  descent.  Sturdy  stock  they  were,  too.  They  lived  at 
Richmond,  Missouri,  until  1864.  Then,  when  Mayor  Bransford  was 
eight  years  of  age,  his  parents  decided  to  remove  to  California.  Their 
journey  was  across  the  plains  by  ox  team,  the  final  destination  was 
Quincy,  Plumas  County.  The  journey  was  a  long  and  laborious  one, 
and  was  beset  with  many  dangers,  and  there  were  many  trials  and  hard- 
ships, but  the  new  home  was  reached  after  six  months.  Here  Mayor 
Bransford  lived  until  1899,  when  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  arriving 
here  February  16,  1899. 

Mayor  Bransford 's  education  was  obtained  in  the  public  schools 
of  Plumas  County,  California.  Afterwards  he  took  a  course  in  a  busi- 
ness college. 

When  twenty  years  old  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  in  his 
California  home,  and  continued  in  business  until  1886.  In  that  year  he 
was  elected  assessor  of  Plumas  County  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  which 
position  he  held  for  four  years.  In  1890  he  was  chosen  sheriff  of  the 
same  county,  and  this  position  he  held  until  1899. 

Meanwhile  Mayor  Bransford  had  visited  Utah  and  became  interested 
in  several  mining  properties.  These  demanding  his  attention,  he 
retired  from  the  position  of  sheriff  in  California  and  came  to  Salt  Lake 
City.  Soon  after  his  arrival  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Stock  and  Mining  Exchange,  which  position  he  held  for  one  year. 

Mayor  Bransford  is  the  vice-president  of  the  Silver  King  Mining 
Company,  a  director  in  the  Keith-O'Brien  Company,  in  the  State  Bank 
of  Utah,  in  the  Utah-Mexican  Rubber  Company,  and  is  president  of 
the  Tabasco-Utah  Development  Company,  located  in  Mexico;  is  also 
president  of  the  Rogers-Evans  Company,  general  insurance,  which  is 
the  largest  insurance  agency  in  the  State.  He  is  also  a  director  in 
several  other  companies. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  and  Commercial  clubs,  and  also  of  the 
Elks,  and  a  charter  member  of  the  Bear  River  Duck  Club. 

Mayor  Bransford  was  appointed  Mayor  of  Salt  Lake  by  the  City 
Council,  on  August  13,  1907,  to  fill  out  the  term  of  Mayor  Ezra  Thomp- 
son, who  resigned.  He  was  nominated  by  his  party,  the  American,  to 
succeed  himself,  and  was  elected  by  an  overwhelming  majority.  His 
vote  was  within  two  hundred  and  fifty  votes  of  all  those  cast  for  opposing 
candidates. 

Mayor  Bransford  was  married  to  Rachiel  Stella  Blood  in  Granville, 
Plumas  County,  California,  on  July  31,  1878.  Mrs.  Bransford 's  father 
was  one  of  the  prominent  mining  men  of  California.  Two  children 
have  been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bransford,  Stella  Irene  and  Wallace 
Wilford.  Mayor  and  Mrs.  Bransford  reside  in  the  Bransford  Apart- 
ments, in  Salt  Lake  City. 

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C.    W.   NIBLEY 


CHARLES  WILSON  NIBLEY 

Charles  Wilson  Nibley,  now  presiding  bishop  in  charge  of  the  tem- 
poral affairs  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter-day  Saints,  was 
graduated  to  that  position  from  a  long  and  successful  career  of  aggres- 
sive business  enterprise  which  made  itself  felt  throughout  the  whole 
Northwest.  Eastern  Oregon  and  Western  Idaho  have  been  his  especial 
fields,  and  the  lumber  and  sugar  industries  have  benefited  most  by  his 
energies,  although  his  activities  have  by  no  means  been  confined  to 
these  branches  of  commercialism. 

Mr.  Nibley  is  by  birth  a  Scotchman,  and,  although  he  came  early 
to  this  country,  yet  his  make-up  possesses  many  of  those  characteristics 
which  have  made  the  Scot  a  leader  among  pioneers  in  every  land.  Born 
near  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  February  5th,  1849,  Mr.  Nibley  came  to 
America  with  his  parents,  James  and  Jean  Nibley,  when  he  was  six 
years  old.  Five  years  later,  in  1860,  the  family  came  to  Utah,  and  at 
Wellsville,  in  Cache  County,  the  elder  Nibley  resumed  the  life  of 
farmer,  which  he  had  followed  in  Scotland.  Three  years  later,  when 
the  boy  was  fourteen  years  old,  he  went  to  Brigham  City  to  live,  and  in 
the  year  1869  he  went  on  a  mission  to  the  Eastern  States.  On  his 
return  thence  he  engaged  in  railroad  work,  and  afterwards,  following 
a  trip  to  England,  he  started  on  his  business  career  in  Logan,  about  1880. 

His  ability  at  once  made  him  prominent  in  religious  and  social  as 
well  as  business  affairs  in  the  Cache  County  seat.  Soon  he  began  to  seek 
wider  fields  for  his  energy,  and  about  1889  turned  his  attention  to  the 
Northwest,  where,  until  he  assumed  his  present  position,  he  attained  his 
greatest  success.  The  prominent  part  he  has  taken  in  commercial  and 
industrial  progress  is  indicated  by  his  prominence  in  organizing  the 
Oregon  Lumber  Company.  He  is  vice-president  of  the  Sumpter  Val- 
ley Railroad,  president  of  the  Payette  Valley  Railroad,  and  founder  of 
the  La  Grande  Sugar  Company.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Lewiston 
Sugar  Company,  president  of  the  Grande  Ronde  Lumber  Company,  and 
the  San  Vicento  Lumber  Company.  In  the  development  and  coloniza- 
tion of  the  Grande  Ronde  and  Payette  valleys  he  has  played  a  most 
important  part. 

He  is  known  as  a  man  of  active  and  progressive  business  instincts, 
of  irreproachable  integrity,  and  of  sound  judgment.  Withal,  he  is 
prominent  in  religious  work,  and  also  well  liked  socially.  He  is  a 
member  of  and  takes  an  active  interest  in  the  work  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Commercial  Club. 

Mr.  Nibley  was  married  in  1869,  and  has  seventeen  children.  His 
home  is  at  the  corner  of  West  Temple  and  North  Temple  Streets,  facing 
Temple  Square. 


99 


JOHN    C.    CUTLER 


JOHN  C.  CUTLER 

John  C.  Cutler,  second  Governor  of  the  State  of  Utah,  was  born  in  Sheffield, 
England,  February  5,  1846,  at  which  time  his  father  was  engaged  as  a  manu- 
facturer of  cutlery,  in  Sheffield.  The  early  boyhood  of  the  Governor  was  spent 
in  the  city  referred  to,  where  he  received  the  rudiments  of  a  common-school 
education.  At  twelve  years  of  age,  with  an  earnest  desire  to  be  self-support- 
ing, he  obtained  a  situation  in  the  city  of  Manchester,  in  the  wholesale  house 
of  S.  &  J.  Watts  &  Co.,  which  position  he  held  until  his  eighteenth  year,  when  he 
removed  with  his  parents  from  England,  locating,  in  1864,  in  Utah. 

After  landing  in  New  York,  the  family  went  by  boat  to  Albany,  thence  by 
rail  to  St.  Joseph,  by  boat  up  the  Missouri  River  to  a  place  called  Wyoming, 
near  Nebraska  City,  and  by  ox  team  from  that  place  to  Salt  Lake  City,  arriv- 
ing in  the  fall  of  the  year  named.  During  the  first  year  of  their  residence  in 
Utah,  the  boys  of  the  family  wrere  engaged  in  the  labor  common  to  the  time, 
including  canyon  work,  farm  work,  etc. 

The  Governor  commenced  his  commercial  career  in  Utah  by  obtaining  a 
clerkship  in  a  business  house.  In  1877  he  became  agent  and  later  on  manager 
of  the  Provo  Woolen  Mills,  and  in  1885  he  and  his  brothers,  Thomas  R.,  Heber 
S.,  and  Joseph  G.,  formed  the  firm  of  Cutler  Bros.  Co.,  and  he  also  assisted  in 
the  establishing  of  beet  sugar  factories  and  other  home  manufacturing  enter- 
prises of  Salt  Lake  City.  In  various  of  these  companies  he  is  still  director. 

Governor  Cutler  has  always  taken  a  lively  interest  in  home  manufacture. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  to  make  knit  goods  in  Utah,  a  line  of  manufacture  which 
his  firm  still  follows  with  marked  success,  and  he  is  largely  interested  also  in  the 
beet  sugar  industry.  For  years  he  was  a  director  in  the  Deseret  Agricultural 
and  Manufacturing  Society,  which  conducts  the  great  State  Fair  each  year  with 
the  aim  of  encouraging  home  manufacture  by  bringing  Utah  products  promi- 
nently before  the  people.  In  these  various  capacities  he  is  a  large  employer  of 
labor;  and  if  anything  can  be  said  to  be  his  hobby,  it  is  giving  employment  to 
home  people  and  keeping  money  at  home.  He  was  also  for  some  years  trustee 
and  treasurer  of  the  L.  D.  S.  University.  In  addition  to  his  connection  with 
the  Cutler  Bros.  Company,  Governor  Cutler  is  identified  with  the  Utah-Idaho 
Sugar  Company  and  the  Deseret  National  Bank.  He  is  vice-president  of  the 
Beneficial  Life  Insurance  Company,  director  in  the  Home  Fire  Insurance  Com- 
pany, Thatcher  Bros.  Banking  Company,  the  Deseret  Savings  Bank,  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Murray,  the  Bank  of  Randolph,  Bank  of  Garland,  the  Utah 
County  Light  and  Power  Company,  and  the  American  Security  Company,  and 
president  of  Daynes  Jewelry  Company. 

The  Governor  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Governors  of  the  Commercial 
Club,  and  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club,  both  of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  was  married 
in  1871  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Taylor,  and  from  the  union  seven  children,  four 
sons  and  three  daughters,  have  been  born.  Of  the  sons,  John  C.,  Jr.,  is  a  promi- 
nent stock  broker,  Herbert  E.  is  manager  of  Cutler  Bros.  Company,  and  Alfred 
T.  is  assistant  manager  of  that  firm.  Of  the  daughters,  Elizabeth  is  the  wife 
of  Edward  E.  Jenkins. 

In  politics,  Governor  Cutler  has  been  an  earnest  Republican  since  national 
party  lines  were  formed  in  Utah.  He  has  not  been  a  seeker  after  political 
office,  on  account  of  the  close,  urgent  attention  required  in  his  private  business. 
Yet  he  has  found  some  time  to  give  to  public  affairs.  From  1884  till  1890  he 
was  clerk  of  Salt  Lake  County  and  ex-officio  clerk  of  the  Probate  Court.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  acted  as  United  States  Jury  Commissioner.  In  1904  his 
friends  prevailed  on  him  to  become  a  candidate  for  the  Republican  nomination 
for  Governor.  Mindful  of  the  high  honor  involved  in  being  chief  executive  of 
an  important  State,  he  accepted  the  nomination  and  was  elected  in  November, 
1904. 

101 


D.    F.    WALKER 


DAVID  FREDRICK  WALKER 

The  history  of  the  inter-mountain  country  would  be  incomplete  without  the 
name  of  David  F.  Walker,  who  for  over  fifty-seven  years  has  been  one  of  the 
leading  business  men  and  most  prominent  and  progressive  citizens  of  Utah. 
David  F.  Walker  was  born  April  19th,  1838,  at  Yeadon,  Yorkshire,  England. 
He  was  the  third  of  the  four  famous  Walker  brothers,  all  of  whom  contributed 
so  much  to  the  upbuilding  of  Utah.  His  father  was  Matthew  Walker,  who  was 
a  wool  merchant  and  hotel  proprietor  in  England.  He  died  in  St.  Louis,  in 
1850,  on  the  way  to  Utah.  His  mother  was  Mercy  (Long)  Walker,  who  passed 
away  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  December,  1863.  David  F.  Walker  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  England.  He  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City,  September  20th, 
1852,  being  then  but  a  boy  of  fourteen. 

David  F.  Walker's  first  occupation  in  life  after  arriving  in  this  country 
was  as  a  peddler  of  notions  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  stayed  for  two  years.  Upon 
Iiis  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  he  entered  the  employ  of  William  Nixon,  formerly  of 
St.  Louis,  but  then  knowrn  as  "The  Father  of  Utah  Merchants,"  who  conducted 
a  general  merchandise  store.  Mr.  Walker  remained  in  this  position  until  the 
spring  of  1859,  at  which  time  (July  1st)  the  firm  of  Walker  Brothers  was 
established  at  Camp  Floyd  about  forty  miles  southwest  of  Salt  Lake.  The  four 
brothers  made  up  the  firm.  David  F.  Walker  was  the  prime  mover  in  starting 
the  business,  having  got  the  first  stock  of  goods  on  credit,  the  stock  consist- 
ing of  $90,000  worth  of  goods.  The  firm,  which  was  originally  formed  for  the 
purpose  of  selling  supplies  to  the  soldiers  then  encamped  at  Camp  Floyd, 
remained  there  until  the  departure  of  the  troops,  when  the  stock  was  removed 
to  Salt  Lake  City  and  the  foundation  laid  for  the  present  mammoth  store  which 
is  second  to  none  in  Utah  in  every  respect.  The  business  was  continued  by  the 
Walker  brothers  until  1886,  and  on  January  20th  of  that  year,  Mr.  Walker 
retired  from  the  firm,  selling  out  his  interest  to  the  remaining  three  brothers. 
In  1888  Mr.  Walker  went  to  San  Francisco  and  entered  business  there.  He 
built  a  magnificent  country  residence  at  San  .Mateo,  California.  It  has  four 
acres  of  lawn  and  covers  six  acres  of  rare  plants  and  other  foliage.  The  house 
has  a  frontage  of  one  hundred  feet  and  a  ninety-foot  depth,  and  is  built  in  old 
Southern  colonial  style.  Mr.  Walker  takes  great  pride  in  his  California  home  and 
loves  to  work  about  the  grounds  among  the  plants  and  flowers,  which  is  his  chief 
recreation. 

Mr.  Walker  was  first  married  to  Emeline  Holmes,  May  18th,  1859.  She 
died' in  August,  1876,  and  their  children  were  Emeline,  Sarah,  Ann,  David  F., 
Jr.,  Henry  W.,  Maud,  and  Stella  May. 

On  October  25th,  1883,  Mr.  Walker  was  married  to  Althea  Hunt,  who  came 
from  an  old  New  York  family  and  was  born,  in  the  old  Ninth  Ward  in  New 
York  City.  To  them  have  been  born  three  children,  of  whom  two  are  living, 
Althea  Margaret  and  Clarence  Hollister. 

Mr.  Walker  is  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Union  Club,  and  the  Burlingame 
Country  Club,  of  San  Francisco,  and  a  former  member  of  the  Alta  Club,  Salt 
Lake  City,  Utah. 

Mr.  Walker's  residence  in  Salt  Lake  City  is  at  No.  75  C  Street. 


103 


FKANK   KNOX 


FRANK  KNOX 

From  a  farmer  boy  to  the  presidency  of  one  of  the  great  financial 
institutions  of  the  inter-mountain  empire,  is  the  record  of  Frank  Knox, 
president  of  the  National  Bank  of  the  Republic,  of  Salt  Lake  City. 
Born  at  Washington,  Iowa,  March  25,  1857,  his  early  life  was  spent 
on  a  farm,  his  father  being  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser.  His  parents 
were  of  English-Scotch  descent.  Both  his  maternal  and  paternal  grand- 
fathers fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  the  War  of  1812,  and 
distinguished  themselves  for  bravery  and  gallantry. 

Frank  Knox  began  life,  as  said,  upon  a  farm.  During  the  winter 
months  he  attended  the  district  school  and  later  entered  an  academy 
in  his  native  town,  where  he  studied  for  two  years.  Then  he  was  ten- 
dered a  position  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Washington,  Iowa,  which 
he  accepted,  and  in  1878  he  was  promoted  to  be  bookkeeper.  One  of  the 
directors  of  the  bank,  John  Bryson,  of  Chicago,  then  tendered  Mr. 
Knox  the  superintendency  of  his  extensive  lumber  interests  in  Kansas, 
a  handsome  salary  being  attached  to  the  position,  and  Mr.  Knox 
accepted  it.  Later  he  purchased  an  interest  in  the  business  which  he 
retained  until  1882,  when  the  firm  sold  out  their  Kansas  yards.  Then 
Mr.  Knox  was  tendered  and  accepted  the  position  of  assistant  cashier 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  his  native  town.  He  was  soon  after  pro- 
moted to  be  cashier.  In  1885  he  resigned  his  position  and  went  to 
Osborne,  Kansas,  where  he  organized  the  First  National  Bank  of  that 
place,  becoming  manager  and  cashier,  which  position  he  held  until  1889, 
when  he  sold  his  interests  and  removed  to  Salt  Lake  City. 

In  1890  he  organized  the  National  Bank  of  the  Republic  of  Salt  Lake 
City  of  which  he  has,  since  its  organization,  been  president.  The 
National  Bank  of  the  Republic  carries  the  largest  deposits  of  any 
National  Bank  in  Utah.  It  is  a  government  depository. 

Mr.  Knox  is  largely  interested  in  mining  in  Utah  and  Nevada.  He 
is  a  member  of  and  vice-president  of  the  American  Bankers  Associa- 
tion, and  is  regarded  as  among  the  leading  bankers  and  financiers  of 
the  country.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  and  Commercial  Clubs  of 
Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Knox  has  never  held  political  office.  He  was  nominated  by  the 
Republicans  for  mayor  of  Salt  Lake  City  in  1903,  but  was  defeated  by 
his  Democratic  opponent.  He  was  married  in  1882  to  Miss  May  Gran- 
ley,  daughter  of  George  and  Margaret  Granley  of  Morris,  111.  Two 
sons  were  born  to  them,  both  living.  Mr.  Knox  resides  in  a  handsome 
home  on  the  corner  of  East  First  South  Street  and  Fourth  East  Street, 
Salt  Lake  City. 


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F.    P.    GRIDLEY 


F.  P.  GRIDLEY 

F.  P.  Gridley,  general  manager  of  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Company, 
one  of  the  largest  concerns  of  its  kind  in  the  United  States,  is  a  resident 
of  Salt  Lake  City  and  represents  the  extensive  interests  there  of  the 
above  corporation. 

Mr.  Gridley  was  born  at  Parkman,  Ohio,  April  10th,  1854,  but 
immediately  afterward  his  parents  removed  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where 
young  Gridley  resided  until  he  was  twelve  years  of  age.  In  1865  his 
father,  James  U.  Gridley,  became  interested  in  the  West  and  removed 
with  his  family  to  Omaha,  Nebraska,  where  he  engaged  in  the  business 
of  freighting  and  cattle.  Here  Mr.  Gridley  remained  until  1893 
when  he  came  to  Utah  and  has  been  actively  engaged  in  business  here 
ever  since.  On  March  27th,  1895,  Mr.  Gridley  was  married  to  Miss 
Kate  Russell,  a  native  of  Utah,  at  Ogden,  and  they  have  two  children, 
Jack  and  Katherine,  and  reside  at  255  Sixth  East  Street. 

Mr.  Gridley  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
also  of  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 

The  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Company,  which  is  incorporated  under 
the  laws  of  Missouri,  with  general  headquarters  at  Kansas  City,  is 
officered  as  follows:  Chas.  S.  Keith,  president  and  general  manager; 
Chas.  Campbell,  vice-president;  J.  C.  Sherwood,  vice-president  and 
general  auditor;  E.  E.  Riley,  treasurer.  It  operates  upwards  of  forty 
coal  mines  in  the  States  of  Kansas,  Missouri,  Arkansas,  Oklahoma, 
and  Wyoming;  and  also  several  large  saw  mills  in  the  yellow  pine  dis- 
tricts of  Louisiana  and  Texas.  The  total  output  of  the  mines  of  this 
company  for  the  last  year  was  2,500,000  tons,  and  of  the  mills  112,000,- 
000  feet.  The  company  owns  in  the  neighborhood  of  175,000  acres  of 
virgin  timber  land  in  the  yellow  pine  districts  and  80,000  acres  of  cut- 
over  land.  The  total  number  of  employees  is  about  7500,  and  the 
annual  business  of  the  company  will  approximate  $15,000,000. 

The  Wyoming  mines  owned  by  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Company 
are  located  at  Rock  Springs,  where  they  mine  their  well-known  "Pea- 
cock" Rock  Springs  coal,  which  is  the  ranking  coal  in  the  western  mar- 
ket. This  coal  is  distributed  from  the  Missouri  River  to  the  Pacific 
Coast  and  throughout  the  States  of  Kansas,  Nebraska,  South  Dakota, 
Wyoming,  Utah,  Nevada,  California,  Oregon,  Washington,  Montana 
and  Idaho,  where  it  is  used  very  extensively  for  domestic,  mining,  smelt- 
ing and  steam  purposes. 

This  company  has  also  been  operating  for  several  years  in  Salt 
Lake  City  a  large  retail  yard,  where  they  have  handled  their  own  prod- 
uct and  built  up  a  very  extensive  business. 

The  general  western  manager  of  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Company 
is  Mr.  F.  P.  Gridley,  with  offices  at  No.  38  South  Main  Street,  Salt  Lake 
•City,  from  which  the  operations  of  the  mines  are  directed  and  the 
general  wholesale  and  retail  business  handled. 


W.    MONT.    FERRY 


WILLIAM  MONTAGUE  FERRY 

Born  in  Grand  Haven,  Michigan,  March  12,  1871,  William  Montague 
Ferry  grew  to  manhood  in  the  Wolverine  State,  securing1  his  early 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Michigan  and  in  the  Michigan  State 
Military  Academy.  Afterwards  he  entered  Olivet  College,  graduating 
from  that  institution  in  1891,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science. 
He  is  now  a  trustee  of  his  Alma  mater. 

Shortly  after  his  graduation  he  came  to  Utah,  in  1893,  going  to 
Park  City,  where  he  became  identified  with  mining  interests  and  engaged 
in  business  with  his  father.  For  a  while  he  was  with  the  famous  Silver 
King  Mine,  now  known  as  the  Silver  King  Coalition,  one  of  the  greatest 
dividend-payers  in  Utah  or  the  country.  Concluding  that  he  would 
devote  his  life  and  energy  to  the  mining  industry,  he  entered  the  Colo- 
rado State  School  of  Mines  at  Golden,  taking  a  course  in  mining  and 
metallurgy. 

After  leaving  the  School  of  Mines  he  again  came  to  Utah  and  entered 
the  service  of  the  Ontario  Mining  Company,  a  property  which  has  paid 
thirteen  million  dollars  in  dividends,  and  was  assigned  to  the  Marsac 
mill  in  the  leaching  and  refining  department,  and  later  in  the  refining 
department  alone.  In  1898  he  left  Park  City,  locating  in  Salt  Lake.  He 
later  became  identified  with  Walker  Brothers,  Bankers,  the  Utah  Sav- 
ings and  Trust  Company,  the  Mason  Valley  Mines  Company,  the  Silver 
-King  Coalition  Mines  Company  (director  in  each),  and  other  mining 
companies. 

Mr.  Ferry  is  a  Republican  in  National  politics.  Locally,  that  is,  on 
State  and  city  issues,  he  is  an  American,  having  been  elected  a  member 
of  the  city  council  of  Salt  Lake  by  the  American  party  in  1905,  for  a 
term  of  four  years.  He  is  chairman  of  the  finance  committee  of  the 
council. 

He  was  married  at  Nashville,  Michigan,  June  3,  1896,  to  Miss  Ednah 
Truman.  The  fruit  of  this  union  is  twin  sons,  William  Montague,  Jr., 
and  Sanford  Truman,  who  were  born  October  4,  1898. 

Mr.  Ferry  is  a  member  of  the  Alta,  Commercial,  Country  and  Uni- 
versity clubs  of  Salt  Lake  City,  president  of  the  Civic  League  of  the 
city,  and  a  director  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  With 
his  family  he  resides  in  a  handsome  home  at  453  East  South  Temple 
Street,  Salt  Lake  City. 


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E.   P.  FERRY 


EDWARD  PAYSON  FERRY 

Edward  Payson  Ferry  was  born  April  16,  1837,  at  Grand  Haven, 
Michigan,  his  father  being  William  Montague  Ferry,  Presbyterian 
missionary  to  the  Indians  at  Mackinac  Island  and  pioneer  settler  of 
Ottawa  County,  Michigan.  His  mother  was  Amanda  W.  Ferry. 

His  father  had  to  civilize  the  Indians  before  he  had  them  ready  to 
Christianize  and  it  took  him  several  years.  But  he  educated  them  in 
the  ordinary  branches  of  English,  got  them  to  the  point  where  they 
could  read  it  and  have  some  understanding  of  it.  In  time  the  Indians 
were  so  grounded  in  the  language  and  in  the  doctrines  of  Christianity 
that  some  of  the  better  educated  ones  were  sent  to  other  Indian  tribes  to 
do  for  those  tribes  what  had  been  done  for  them.  This  was  one  of  the 
most  successful  missions  ever  sent  out  by  the  Presbyterians  among  the 
Indians,  and  its  influence  has  long  continued. 

Edward  Payson  Ferry  early  showed  aptitude  for  commercialism 
and  branched  out  into  the  lumber  trade,  engaging  in  the  saw  mill  busi- 
ness and  acquiring  timber  lands.  The  business  grew  to  such  proportions 
that  the  matter  of  transportation  became  an  important  need  and  a  line 
of  lake  steamers  was  acquired.  Meanwhile  he  became  interested  in 
banking  and  was  elected  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Grand 
Haven. 

Mr.  Ferry  early  became  impressed  with  the  mining  possibilities  of 
the  WTest.  He  located  in  Park  City,  Utah,  in  1878,  with  the  intention  of 
superintending  the  investments  of  himself  and  associates.  Later  he 
acquired  mining  ground  by  discovery,  or  by  grubstaking  prospectors,  or 
by  actual  purchase. 

He  married  Clara  V.  White  in  Michigan  in  1870,  and  five  children 
were  born  to  them.  Of  these  one  died  and  two  sons  and  two  daughters 
are  living  and  married,  as  follows :  W.  Mont.  Ferry,  Edward  Stewart 
Ferry,  Miriam  Ferry  Reynolds,  and  Edith  Ferry  Merrill.  His  chief 
interests  now  are  in  the  Silver  King  Coalition  Mines  Company,  Walker 
Brothers,  Bankers,  and  the  Utah  Savings  and  Trust  Company.  He  has 
other  mining  interests  and  has  much  Salt  Lake  real  estate.  In  politics 
he  is  Republican  nationally.  Locally  he  was  identified  with  the  old 
Liberal  party  and  was  one  of  its  first  members  in  the  State  Legislature. 

In  his  busy  life  he  has  spared  time  for  and  enjoyed  the  amenities  of 
social  life.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club,  and  honorary  member  of 
the  University  Club,  and  a  Knight  Templar. 

Edward  P.  Ferry's  activities  in  the  entire  West  were  so  extensive 
and  so  widely  comprehensive  that  before  he  was  here  many  years  he 
recognized  the  inevitable  empire  of  this  region.  He  was  active  in  the 
organization  of  the  Trans-Mississippi  Congress,  and  was  made  president 
of  that  organization  in  Denver  in  1891.  He  served  the  congress  with 
credit  to  himself  and  to  the  Territory  of  Utah  which  he  represented. 

He  is  now  72  years  of  age,  and  for  a  number  of  years  his  health 
has  been  impaired  and  he  has  not  actively  engaged  in  business.  His 
extensive  interests  are  managed  by  his  sons,  W.  Mont  Ferry  and 
Edward  Stewart  Ferry. 

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CHARLES   E.    LOOSE 


CHARLES  E.  LOOSE 

One  of  Utah 's  most  prominent  and  progressive  mining  men  and  one 
who  has  achieved  great  success  and  distinction  in  politics,  as  well  as 
business,  is  Charles  Edwin  Loose,  of  Provo,  Utah.  Mr.  Loose  was  born 
at  Quincy,  Illinois,  September  19,  1853.  His  parents  were  Robert  and 
Betsy  Jane  Tenny  Loose,  and  from  them  he  inherited  a  strong  physique 
and  determination  of  character  that  has  made  him  successful  in  all 
his  undertakings.  His  father- died  while  Charles  was  an  infant,  and 
his  mother,  who  was  a  woman  of  education  and  refinement,  taught  in 
the  public  schools  of  Quincy,  Illinois,  after  the  death  of  her  husband. 
She  continued  there  until  1860,  when  with  her  family  she  came  to  Utah. 

When  Charles  E.  Loose  was  sixteen  years  of  age,  which  was  the 
year  that  witnessed  the  completion  of  the  transcontinental  railway,  he 
went  to  California  and  there  engaged  in  mining,  which  occupation  he 
has  followed  successfully  ever  since.  In  the  year  1885  he  returned  to 
Utah,  opening  up  and  developing  mines  in  the  Tintic  District.  In  1892 
he  removed  to  Provo  permanently,  and  since  that  date  has  been  an 
important  factor  in  mining,  financial  and  political  circles,  and  is  always 
n  qny  movement  tending  towards  the  upbuilding  and  public 
welfare  of  that  city.  He  is  a  strong  Republican  and  immediately  affili- 
ated himself  with  that  party,  and  has  always  been  a  potential  factor  in 
all  political  affairs— city,  State  or  national.  In  1900  Mr.  Loose  was 
sent  as  a  delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Convention  at  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  assisted  in  nominating  the  late  President  McKinley  and 
Theodore  Roosevelt.  After  the  election  he  was  chosen  the  elector  to 
carry  the  electoral  votes  of  Utah  to  Washington. 

In  1902  Mr.  Loose  was  elected  State  Senator  from  the  Seventh 
Senatorial  District.  Mr.  Loose  is  principally  engaged  in  mining,  but  is 
a  strong  figure  in  finance  also,  being  vice-president  of  the  Provo  Com- 
mercial and  Savings  Bank,  and  is  also  a  large  owner  of  and  investor  in 
real  estate  and  business  blocks.  He  has  always  been  liberal  with  his 
wealth  and  has  supported  many  worthy  charities,  and  any  movement 
tending  to  the  betterment  of  conditions  in  Provo  and  throughout  Utah. 


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A.  F.  DOREMUS 


A.  F.  DOEEMUS 

With  a  national  reputation  as  a  railroad  construction  and  irrigation 
engineer,  Abraham  Fairbanks  Doremus  has  performed  no  mean  share 
of  the  work  in  building  up  the  fame  of  Salt  Lake,  his  native  city. 

The  son  of  Henry  I.  Doremus,  one  of  the  most  prominent  educators 
of  his  day,  and  of  Harriet  Fairbanks,  of  the  old  American  family  of 
the  name,  Mr.  Doremus  was  born  in  Salt  Lake,  May  24,  1849.  Living 
here  at  a  time  when  the  present  excellent  school  system  was  yet  in  its 
infancy,  the  young  Doremus  had  the  inestimable  advantage  of  securing 
more  than  an  ordinary  education  under  the  tutelage  of  his  father. 
Being  unusually  proficient  in  mathematics  and  manifesting1  a  fondness 
for  the  study,  his  mind  early  turned  toward  civil  engineering,  and  he 
directed  his  energies  toward  acquiring  a  thorough  knowledge  of  this 
profession. 

Shortly  after  reaching  man's  estate,  Mr.  Doremus  married  Miss 
Pauline  Eichards,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Willard  Eichards.  Five  chil- 
dren blessed  the  union  of  whom  three  are  now  living.  They  are  Mrs. 
Hattie  D.  Hagman,  Henry  E.  Doremus  and  Cornelius  E.  Doremus. 

The  acquirements  of  Mr.  Doremus  as  a  civil  engineer  early  attracted 
the  attention  of  the  great  railroad  corporations,  then  engaged  in  open- 
ing the  West  to  commerce,  and  his  services  were  in  great  demand,  not 
only  in  Utah,  but  in  Idaho,  Montana,  Colorado,  Wyoming,  New  Mexico, 
Arizona,  California  and  Nevada.  He  engaged  in  the  work  of  location 
and  construction  for  the  Union  Pacific,  Denver  &  Eio  Grande,  Oregon 
Short  Line,  and  various  other  railroads. 

Interested  in  the  science  of  irrigation  from  his  youth,  Mr.  Doremus 
was  and  is  now  an  authority  on  the  subject,  and  his  talents  have  been 
used  in  planning  a  number  of  large  enterprises  of  this  character  in 
the  West. 

His  services  to  the  city  and  State  have  been  recognized  by  the 
people,  Mr.  Doremus  having  held  the  office  of  city  engineer,  chairman  of 
the  Board  of  Public  Works,  state  engineer  of  Utah,  and  a  member  of 
the  State  Board  of  Health.  He  was  the  Eepublican  party  nominee  for 
mayor  of  Salt  Lake,  but  in  a  close  contest  was  defeated  by  John  Clark 
on  the  "Citizens"  ticket. 

Mr.  Doremus  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engi- 
neers, and  a  director  of  the  "Fairbanks  family  in  America."  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Commercial  Club.  Mr.  Doremus  is  president  of  the 
Tooele  City  Water  Company  and  is  interested  in  the  Blackfoot  Stock 
Company.  His  residence  is  in  Progress  Flats,  one  of  the  handsome 
apartment  buildings  of  the  city,  which  is  owned  by  Mr.  Doremus. 


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LOUIS    COHN 


LOUIS  COHN 

Louis  Colin,  one  of  Salt  Lake  City's  most  progressive  and  successful 
merchants,  was  born  in  Doberzyn,  Poland,  Russia,  April  18,  1842.  He 
was  educated  in  the  Government  public  schools  there,  and  in  1859,  at  the 
age  of  seventeen,  he  emigrated  to  New  York,  in  which  city  he  clerked 
in  a  dry  goods  store  for  two  years,  when  he  went  to  California  and 
entered  the  mercantile  business  in  Sierra  County,  where  he  kept  a 
general  store  for  the  next  four  years,  in  which  he  was  quite  successful. 
In  1865  he  left  California,  driving  his  own  team  from  Poker  Flat,  made 
famous  by  Bret  Harte,  and  started  for  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he 
arrived  after  a  tedious  six  weeks'  journey.  Shortly  after  arriving  in 
Salt  Lake  he  started  a  general  store  under  the  firm  name  of  Cohn  & 
Munter,  which  continued  for  two  years,  when  the  dry  goods  establish- 
ment known  as  The  California  Store  was  formed  by  Mr.  L.  Colin  and 
his  brother,  Alexander,  which,  after  many  ups  and  downs,  was  finally 
merged  into  the  Cohn  Dry  Goods  Company.  That  firm  went  out  of 
business,  and  in  1887  the  present  house  was  established  and  has  been 
very  successful  ever  since,  and  is  to-day  one  of  the  leading  dry  goods 
houses  in  Salt  Lake  City.  The  success  attained  by  this  house  was  due 
mainly  to  the  business  ability  and  good  judgment  of  Mr.  Louis  Cohn, 
who  believes  in  sticking  close  to  business  and  hanging  on  even  when 
severe  reverses  happen.  He  has  always  been  a  firm  believer  in  Salt 
Lake  and  the  community  and  when  he  came  here  he  determined  to 
stick,  which  he  did  and  has  made  a  success  of  his  business.  His  brother 
and  partner,  Mr.  Alexander  Cohn,  died  in  1902,  and  the  company  was 
incorporated  in  1907,  and  his  widow  retained  her  husband's  full  share 
of  the  business. 

Mr.  Cohn,  besides  being  president  of  the  L.  &  A.  Cohn  Dry  Goods 
Company,  is  connected  with  the  Kaysville  Brick  Company,  and  has 
numerous  mining  interests.  He  was  a  member  of  the  city  council  for 
two  terms  during  the  administration  of  Mayor  Scott,  also  in  1894,  while 
Mayor  Baskin  held  office,  and  was  subsequently  fire  and  police  com- 
missioner. 

Mr.  Cohn  was  married  April  20,  1876,  to  Miss  Carrie  Lippman,  and 
they  have  two  children,  Edna  C.  and  Sylvia  Cohn  Druehl.  Mr;  Colin 
is  a  member  of  the  Alta  and  Commercial  clubs,  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason  and  Shriner,  and  was  grand  master  of  the  Masonic  fraternity 
in  Utah  in  1872. 


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DAVID  EVANS 


DAVID  EVANS 

Among  the  most  prominent  of  the  pioneer  mining  men  of  Utah 
and  one  who  has  won  success  and  distinction  as  a  citizen,  lawyer,  public 
official  and  mine  operator,  is  David  Evans,  whose  name  stands  for  all 
that  is  square  and  upright  in  business  circles  and  as  a  man. 

David  Evans  is  a  native  Utahan,  born  at  Lehi,  on  January  28th, 
1852.  His  parents  were  David  Evans,  a  prosperous  merchant  and 
farmer  of  Utah,  and  Barbara  Ann  Evans. 

Mr.  Evans's  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  at 
Lehi  and  the  Brigham  Young  Academy  at  Provo;  he  subsequently 
having  an  inclination  toward  the  legal  profession,  took  the  law  course 
at  the  University  at  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  and  after  graduating  there- 
from he  returned  to  Utah  and  practiced  his  profession  with  much  suc- 
cess. His  first  work  was  as  City  Attorney  at  Lehi.  Later  he  was 
Assistant  United  States  Attorney  for  Utah,  and  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  upper  house  of  the  Utah  Territorial  Legislature  and  of  the 
Constitutional  Convention.  Mr.  Evans  was  brought  up  on  a  farm,  and 
practiced  law  in  the  Utah  courts  for  twenty  years,  then  retired  to 
engage  actively  in  mining,  at  which  he  has  achieved  wonderful  suc- 
cess. Mr.  Evans  is  interested  in  the  King  David  Mining  Company, 
Crown  Point  Mining  Company,  Iron  King  Consolidated  Mining  Com- 
pany, and  many  other  mining  properties,  too  numerous  to  mention. 
Mr.  Evans  is  a  large  owner  of  and  manager  of  nearly  all  of  the  min- 
ing companies  mentioned  and  also  owner  of  considerable  real  estate  in 
and  around  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  and  especially  around  Venice  and  Ocean 
Park.  Mr.  Evans  is  now  a  resident  of  Venice,  Cal.,  and  he  has  done 
much  towards  the  improvement  and  building  up  of  that  place  which  is 
one  of  the  real  beauty  spots  of  California,  and  a  noted  resort  which 
is  daily  visited  by  thousands  of  tourists  and  much  appreciated  by  the 
residents  of  that  section  of  California.  Venice  is  located  directly  on  the 
shores  of  the  Pacific  and  built  after  the  fashion  of  Venice,  Italy,  from 
which  famous  city  it  derives  its  name.  Picturesque  canals  run  through 
the  town  and  all  kinds  of  amusements  are  afforded  the  visitor,  includ- 
ing band  concerts,  which  are  given  daily.  Ocean  bathing  is  also  an 
attraction,  and  the  climate  is  perfect  the  whole  year  around.  Venice 
is  in  every  respect  an  ideal  spot  and  contains  many  beautiful  residences 
of  some  of  the  wealthiest  people  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Evans  was  married  to  Leah  Naegle,  of  Lehi,  Utah,  December 
1st,  1882,  at  Salt  Lake  City,  and  to  them  were  born  three  children; 
Lucile,  aged  fourteen;  Irma  Louise,  aged  ten,  and  Leah  (deceased).  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  the  leading  club  of  Los  Angeles,  a 
Mason  and  Shriner  and  a  life  member  of  the  American  Mining  Con- 
gress. While  Mr.  Evans  is  a  resident  of  Venice,  California,  he  makes 
Salt  Lake  City  the  headquarters  for  all  of  his  mining  operations  and 
divides  his  time  pretty  equally  between  Utah  and  California. 

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JESSE   KNIGHT 


JESSE  KNIGHT 

One  of  Utah's  leading  and  most  respected  citizens,  and  one  who  has 
devoted  most  of  his  life  to  the  development  of  Utah's  mineral  resources, 
is  Jesse  Knight,  of  Provo.  The  Knights  were  pioneers  and  were  iden- 
tified with  the  Mormon  Church  at  its  very  birth,  and  closely  connected 
with  the  early  settlement  of  Utah.  Newel  Knight,  father  of  Jesse 
Knight,  was  one  of  the  first  converts  to  Mormonism  and  held  many 
responsible  positions  in  the  church,  and  was  a  close  friend  and  adviser 
of  Joseph  Smith,  first  president  of  the  church.  Jesse's  mother  was 
Lydia  G.  Bailey,  and  she  was  married  to  Newel  Knight  at  Kirtland, 
Ohio,  in  November,  1834,  the  prophet  officiating.  It  was  the  first  mar- 
riage ceremony  he  had  ever  performed.  The  Knights  settled  at  Nauvoo, 
Illinois,  where,  on  September  6,  1845,  Jesse  Knight  was  born.  He  was 
the  sixth  of  seven  children  born;  namely,  Sally,  James,  Joseph,  Newel, 
Lydia,  Jesse,  and  Hyrum.  The  elder  Knight  died  in  1847,  and  for  three 
years  following  the  widow  had  to  battle  with  all  the  privations  of 
frontier  life  with  seven  small  children.  In  1850,  after  three  years  of 
hardship,  Mrs.  Knight  and  family  started  for  Salt  Lake,  where  they 
arrived,  after  a  troublous  journey,  in  October  of  that  year.  Here  she 
became  a  school-teacher  and  thus  supported  her  family.  The  earliest 
recollection  of  Jesse  is  attending  his  mother 's  school,  and  herding  cows. 

At  the  age  of  sixteen  Jesse  started  out  in  life  for  himself,  and  chose 
Provo  as  a  home,  working  at  any  employment  he  could  obtain.  When 
the  Black  Hawk  War  broke  out  he  became  a  scout  in  Capt.  Alva  Green's 
cavalry  company.  In  1868  he  worked  on  the  railroad,  helping  to  build 
the  Union  Pacific.  On  January  18,  1869,  at  Salt  Lake,  Jesse  Knight, 
then  twenty-three  years  old,  married  Miss  Amanda  McEwen,  a  daughter 
of  John  and  Amanda  McEwen  of  Provo.  Mr.  Knight  was  still  doing- 
freighting  and  teaming  in  the  canyons  for  the  railroad.  He  was  at 
Tintic  when  the  first  mines  were  discovered,  and  made  some  locations. 
He  hauled  the  first  ore  from  the  Mt.  Nebo  mines  to  the  Homansville 
smelter  in  Tintic.  He  next  went  into  the  cattle  business  near  Payson, 
where  he  had  forty  acres  of  land  at  the  beginning.  He  added  to  his 
holdings  and  reared  his  family  there.  He  went  to  buying  and  selling 
cattle  and  investing  in  mines,  but  it  was  not  until  many  years  later 
that  he  realized  any  profits  from  his  mining  investments.  His  claims 
in  Tintic  became  valuable,  and  he  soon  was  worth  $30,000 ;  a  large  sum 
of  money  in  pioneer  days.  He  next  located  the  Humbug  Mine,  which 
ultimately  became  one  of  the  sources  of  his  wealth.  He  then  went  to 
Provo  in  order  to  give  his  children  better  educational  advantages  for 
religious  and  scholastic  training.  He  went  broke  again,  owing  to  his 
open-hearted,  generous  nature  and  charitable  disposition.  But  in  1896 
a  rich  strike  was  made  in  the  Humbug  Mine,  and  Jesse  Knight  was  on  his 
feet  again.  He  next  bought  the  Uncle  Sam  Mine,  paying  for  it  $26,000, 
and  in  the  next  three  years  had  cleared  $300,000,  his  income  averaging 
$10,000  a  month. 

The  children  of  Jesse  Knight  are :  Oscar  Raymond,  Jesse  William, 
Amanda  Inez,  Jennie  Pearl,  and  Addie  lona  Knight.  His  sons  are 
connected  with  him  in  business.  The  business  interests  of  Jesse  Knight 
are  many,  and  cover  a  wide  field.  Mr.  Knight  has  done  much  for  the 
welfare  of  Utah  and  its  people. 

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W.    J.    HALLORAN 


WILLIAM  J.  HALLORAN 

It  would  be  difficult  indeed  to  find  a  man  embodying  all  the  qualifications 
of  a  good  citizen,  a  gentleman  and  a  business  man  more  desirable  for  a  town 
or  city  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  William  J.  Halloran.  Having  staked 
his  chances  in  this  city  of  Zion  for  over  twenty-two  years,  he  has  been  before 
the  public  eye,  and  that  he  to-day  is  looked  upon  by  all  who  know  him  as  one 
of  the  first  citizens  of  Salt  Lake  is  due  to  his  inherent  ideas  of  honesty  and 
integrity,  combined  with  his  wonderful  resourcefulness  and  business  acumen. 
A  booster  and  plugger  for  Salt  Lake  and  her  resources,  he  has  become  so  promi- 
nent in  the  growth  and  development  of  the  city  that  nothing  is  ever  suggested 
and  thought  of  concerning  civic  improvements  or  aggrandizement  that  is  not  first 
submitted  to  this  first  citizen  of  the  City  of  Salt  Lake. 

Born  in  Detroit,  Michigan,  on  the  25th  day  of  November,  1859,  his  father 
was  John  Halloran,  for  years  with  the  Grand  Trunk  Railroad,  in  the  freight 
department,  and  his  mother  Bridget  Halloran.  He  received  his  earlier  educa- 
tion in  Sarnia,  Ontario,  Canada,  his  people  having  moved  to  that  town  when  he 
was  a  mere  lad.  The  West  always  had  charms  for  him,  and,  although  he  had 
reached  man's  estate  before  he  responded  to  the  call  of  this  country,  he  came 
and  located  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  November,  1887. 

Young,  imbued  with  the  never-give-up  spirit  and  chuck  full  of  determina- 
tion, he  soon  became  a  prominent  man  in  business  circles  of  this  city.  He 
made  friends  readily;  and  not  only  that,  he  kept  them.  Always  energetic,  busi- 
ness opportunities  came  and  he  was  at  the  door  to  meet  them.  To-day  he  is 
known  by  all  classes  for  his  shrewdness  and  methods  of  fair  dealing.  He  is 
interested  in  several  companies,  prominent  among  them  being  the  Halloran- 
Judge  Company,  of  which  he  is  the  senior  partner,  and  which  is  one  of  the  best- 
known  real  estate  firms  in  the  city.  He  is  also  prominently  identified  with  the 
Merchants'  Bank,  the  Utah  Savings  and  Trust  Company,  the  Continental  Life 
and  Investment  Company,  the  Studebaker  Bros.  Company  of  Utah,  and  the 
Newhouse  Hotel  Company. 

While  not  a  politician  in  any  sense  of  the  word,  he  is  prominently  identified 
with  the  American  party  and  its  success,  and  for  four  years  he  was  on  the 
Board  of  Public  Works  under  this  administration,  and  was  an  earnest  and  con- 
scientious worker  for  civic  improvements.  He  is  best  known,  however,  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Commercial  Club,  now  serving  his  third  term  in  that  office.  He  has 
ever  labored  for  the  perpetuity  of  this  organization  and  it  is  needless  to  men- 
tion the  innumerable  propositions  which  have  been  attempted  and  accomplished 
by  this  organization  and  through  the  individuality  of  its  president.  The  most 
recent  thing  which  has  reflected  credit  on  the  kind  of  men  who  are  members  of 
.the  organization  and  who  work  hand  in  hand  with  its  president,  is  the  cam- 
paign waged  to  raise  the  $150,000  for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Nothing  that  he  has  ever 
helped  to  accomplish  gives  him  greater  pleasure  than  the  building  of  the  new 
six-story  fire-proof  Commercial  Club  home,  which  is  to  be  completed  this  year, 
at  a  cost  of  $300,000. 

Although  a  very  busy  man  with  his  many  business  duties,  he  is  very  promi- 
nent in  social  and  club  life.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club,  Knights  of 
Columbus,  Elks  Lodge,  and  also  president  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  Associa- 
tion and  the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees.  His  home  life  is  an  ideal  one  and  he 
enjoys  spending  his  few  unoccupied  hours  in  the  bosom  of  his  family.  Married 
in  1883,  in  St.  Clair,  Michigan,  his  union  has  been  blessed  with  three  children, 
namely,  Ruel  G.,  Mary  E.,  and  Florence  K.  He  has  a  beautiful  residence  at 
717  East  Second  South  Street,  and  it  is  very  often  the  scene  of  social  activity. 

Mr.  Halloran 's  friends  predict  for  him  a  continued  successful  and  prosper- 
ous career,  and  while  Fortune  has  smiled  upon  him  since  he  has  been  here,  it  is 
predicted  that  the  coming  years  hold  out  for  him  a  greater  measure  of  success. 
He  has  one  pet  phrase  which  tells  the  tale  of  his  successful  career,  and  that  is, 
"There  is  no  such  word  as  fail." 

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BOYD    PARK 


BOYD  PARK 

Boyd  Park  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  jewelers  in  the  United 
States,  and  his  establishments  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  Denver,  Colorado, 
are  second  to  none  in  the  jewelry  trade.  Mr.  Park  is  a  native  of  Scot- 
land, and  was  born  at  Ellerslee,  December  28,  1837,  being  at  the  present 
writing  nearly  seventy-two  years  of  age  and  still  actively  engaged  with 
the  business  founded  by  him  nearly  forty  years  ago.  He  is  a  son  of 
Alexander  Park,  who  conducted  a  silk-weaving  establishment  at  Ellers- 
lee, Scotland,  and  Margaret  Stephenson  Park. 

Mr.  Park  received  his  education  in  the  schools  at  Bridge  of  Weir, 
Scotland,  and  his  first  occupation  was  working  in  the  silk  mills  of  his 
native  place.  In  May,  1849,  while  still  a  boy,  he  arrived  in  New  York 
City,  and  began  the  career  which  was  destined  to  make  him  a  successful 
man.  Shortly  after  his  arrival  in  this  country  he  went  to  Troy,  New 
York,  where  he  learned  the  jeweler's  trade  thoroughly,  with  the  firm 
of  William  L.  Adams.  Starting  as  an  apprentice  in  1852,  he  worked 
his  way  to  the  top.  He  remained  there  until  1862,  when  he  removed  to 
Poultney,  Vermont,  and  became  associated  with  Jervis  Joslin,  remain- 
ing there  until  the  spring  of  1866,  when  he  went  to  Denver,  Colorado, 
and  in  May  of  that  year  he  established  the  first  WTestern  store  of  the 
well-known  firm  of  Joslin  &  Park.  In  December,  1867,  he  extended  his 
business,  and  opened  a  store  in  Cheyenne,  Wyoming,  and  he  conducted 
that  place  while  his  partner,  Mr.  Joslin,  established  a  like  concern  in 
Leadville,  Colorado,  under  the  firm  name  of  Joslin  &  Park.  In  1871 
the  Salt  Lake  establishment  was  opened  under  the  same  firm  name, 
which  remained  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Joslin,  when  Mr.  Park  pur- 
chased from  his  estate  his  interest  in  all  of  the  stores,  and  has  since 
continued  the  business,  doing  a  manufacturing  and  retail  business  of 
great  magnitude.  The  manufacturing  department  is  one  of  the  best 
equipped  and  does  the  largest  volume  of  business  of  any  house  west  of 
Chicago. 

Mr.  Park  is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  respected  citizens  of 
the  inter-mountain  country,  and  is  always  foremost  in  any  movement 
for  the  public  good  and  welfare  of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Library  Board  for  several  years,  was  president  of  the  Bank  of 
Commerce  for  a  number  of  years,  and  has  been,  and  is  now,  actively 
identified  with  many  of  Salt  Lake  City's  largest  industries. 

Mr.  Park  was  married  in  January,  1869,  to  Miss  Jennie  Culver,  of 
an  old  American  family  dating  back  to  Revolutionary  times,  and  to 
them  were  born  two  children:  Samuel  C.  and  Margaret  B.  Park.  Mr. 
Park  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  and  Commercial  clubs,  and  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  being  a  Knight  Templar  and  a  Mystic  Shriner. 

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JOHN  SHARP 


JOHN  SHARP 

John  Sharp,  eldest  son  of  the  late  Bishop  John  Sharp  of  the  Twentieth  ecclesiastical 
ward  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  his  father's  right  hand  man  in  all  the  elder  man's  activities  in  this 
section,  was  born  in  Clachmannanshire,  Scotland,  December  28,  1841,  and  arrived  in  Utah, 
in  September,  1850,  with  his  parents,  John  Sharp,  a  coal  miner,  and  Jane  Patterson,  his 
mother;  also  a  younger  brother,  James  Sharp,  since  deceased. 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Salt  Lake,  and  in  1866  was  married  to  Hannah 
Neslen,  a  daughter  of  a  well-known  English  family  in  Utah.  There  was  but  one  son  born 
of  this  union,  John  Neslen  Sharp. 

When  Bishop  Sharp  arrived  in  Utah,  Brigham  Young  was  quick  to  recognize  his  con- 
structive ingenuity.  He  was  given  a  contract  quarrying  stone  for  the  big  Tabernacle,  the 
Tithing  House,  and  for  the  old  Council  House,  which  was  built  where  the  Deseret  News 
building  now  stands  and  was  burned  down  in  September,  1883.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  associated  with  his  father  in  this  contract,  which  they  completed  on  time  and  with 
profit  to  themselves.  When  the  Union  Pacific  was  building,  Brigham  Young  proposed  to 
furnish  the  necessary  men  and  teams  to  build  the  grade,  and  a  contract  was  awarded  to  him 
and  sublet  to  Bishop  Sharp  for  the  grade  from  the  head  of  Echo  Canyon  to  Promontory. 
Eighty  per  cent  of  the  completed  work,  according  to  the  estimates  of  the  company's  engineers, 
was  paid  each  month,  and  when  the  entire  job  was  completed  and  accepted,  the  whole  figure 
was  paid.  It  left  John  Sharp,  Sr.,  a  wealthy  man,  and  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  having 
been  busy  on  the  grade  as  a  supervisor  and  marshal  of  the  working  forces,  profited  with  his 
father. 

John  Sharp  the  younger  is  a  shareholder  and  a  director  in  the  Horn  Silver  Mining 
Company,  whose  mines  are  at  Frisco,  Utah,  and  in  the  Frisco  Consolidated  Mining  Com- 
pany, and  has  been  for  some  years  president  of  the  Twentieth  Ward  Grocery  Company.  He 
was  also  one  of  the  heaviest  stockholders,  after  his  father,  in  the  Utah  Central  and  one  ot 
the  incorporators  of  the  Utah  Southern  and  Utah  Southern  Extension  railroads,  and  until 
the  taking  over  of  those  lines  by  the  Union  Pacific,  in  1889,  he  was  for  some  years  the 
general  freight  and  passenger  agent  of  these  lines. 

When  Utah  was  made  a  State  and  Heber  M.  Wells  had  been  elected  the  first  governor, 
he  appointed  John  Sharp  State  Fish  and  Game  Commissioner.  He  assumed  charge  of  this 
office  May,  1896,  holding  it  continuously  until  March,  1907.  It  was  on  his  recommendation 
that  the  first  legislature  appropriated  $5,000  for  the  first  State  fish  hatchery,  and  during 
these  eleven  years,  embracing  the  two  full  terms  of  Governor  Wells,  and  the  first  half 
of  Governor  Cutler's  term,  under  the  administration  of  John  Sharp,  the  appropriations  for 
the  maintenance  of  the  department  never  exceeded  $9,000  for  any  biennial  period,  by  the 
legislature. 

There  was  very  little  remuneration  attached  to  the  office.  John  Sharp  was  always  a 
game  sportsman,  a  fisherman  who  wanted  to  have  the  finny  tribe  protected  for  the  men 
who  indulged  in  fishing  for  pure  sport  and  not  for  the  market,  and  the  same  rule  applied 
with  John  Sharp  to  game  birds  on  both  land  and  water.  He  accepted  the  appointment  out 
of  pure  love  of  legitimate  sport  and  to  work  for  laws  that  would  prohibit  the  slaughter 
of  fish  and  game  by  the  wholesale  for  market.  Early  in  John  Sharp's  administration  of 
the  fish  and  game  department  he  established  the  practice  of  closing  alternate  trout  streams 
for  a  season,  having  already  planted  many  thousands  of  healthy  young  fry  in  the  streams 
from  the  State  fish  hatchery,  or,  as  sometimes  happened  to  good  advantage,  a  consignment 
of  fry  would  be  sent  to  him  from  some  of  the  Government  fish  hatcheries. 

John  Sharp  is  now  in  his  sixty-eighth  year.  His  life  has  been  full  of  activities  and 
he  has  reaped  a  great  harvest.  He  has  retired  from  active  business,  and  is  enjoying  life  at 
his  comfortable  home  with  the  wife  of  his  young  manhood.  He  has  reared  one  son,  and 
there  are  several  grandchildren,  the  eldest  grandson  being  named  John.  There  is  a  direct 
record  of  this  line  of  Sharps  of  nine  first  sons  whose  names  are  John.  The  bishop  was  the 
sixth  and  he  had  record  of  five  generations  of  Johns  before  himself.  His  son  John,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  is  the  seventh;  John  Neslen  Sharp  is  the  efghth,  and  his  son,  John 
Miles  Sharp,  is  the  ninth. 

John  Sharp  is  still  the  ardent  sportsman  and  will  be  whipping  the  streams  yet  for  years 
for  the  finny  tribe,  or  shooting  the  grouse  and  the  prairie  chicken  and  sage  hen,  and  when 
the  opportunity  offers  occasionally  goes  out  with  his  rifle  for  larger  game.  He  is  an  expert 
with  the  rifle,  revolver  and  shotgun,  either  in  field  shooting  or  target  practice. 


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E.    B.    CRITCHLOW 


EDWARD  B.  CRITCHLOW 

Edward  B.  Critchlow  was  born  October  2nd,  1858,  in  Warren 
County,  Mississippi,  his  father  being  John  J.  Critchlow,  a  college  pro- 
fessor at  Washington  College,  near  Natchez.  Later  he  was  an  agent 
in  the  Indian  service  under  the  United  States  Government.  His  mother 
is  Mabel  H.  Critchlow.  He  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City,  May  5th,  1873, 
and  was  educated  in  the  Collegiate  Institute  at  Salt  Lake  City,  Prince- 
ton University  and  Columbia  Law  School.  He  was  married  January 
20,  1886,  to  Mary  W.  Martin,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  and  they 
have  seven  children:  Elizabeth,  Francis  B.,  George  A.,  Maurice  M., 
Anna  J.,  Margery  W.,  and  Walter  M. 

The  properties  Mr.  Critchlow  is  principally  interested  in  are  the 
Twin  Falls  Waterworks  Company,  the  Susanna  Gold  Mining  Com- 
pany, the  Utah-Colorado  Cattle  and  Improvement  Company  and  Bing- 
ham-New  Haven  Copper  and  Gold  Mining  Company. 

He  served  three  years  as  Assistant  United  States  District  Attorney 
for  Utah,  being  appointed  and  serving  during  1885,  and  re-appointed  in 
1890  for  that  year,  and  again  in  1891.  In  1895  he  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  first  State  legislature  on  the  Republican  ticket.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Alta,  University,  and  Country  clubs  and  the  Princeton 
Club  of  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Henderson, 
Pierce,  Critchlow  &  Barrette. 

Mr.  Critchlow 's  home  is  a  comfortable  and  commodious  residence 
at  430  Seventh  East  Street,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


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A.    KICHTER 


ADOLPH  RICHTER 

Adolpli  Ricliter,  who  is  one  of  the  leading  real-estate  men  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  is  in  every  sense  of  the  term  a  self-made  man.  He  was  born 
in  Germany,  August  10,  1859,  and  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
Stettin.  Graduating  from  the  high  school  there,  he  found  himself 
being  influenced  by  a  desire  to  seek  a  new  home  in  America.  Deter- 
mining on  this  step,  he  reached  New  York  in  1878  and  sought  and 
secured  employment  for  a  while  in  the  Fulton  Street  market. 

About  a  year  later  he  came  west  and  joined  a  surveying  party 
which  the  government  was  sending  to  Alaska.  This  early  exploration 
and  surveying  trip  was  a  most  valuable  and  interesting  experience  for 
Mr.  Richter,  and  when  it  was  completed  he  returned  to  the  States, 
remaining  a  while  in  San  Francisco  and  later  locating  in  the  Black 
Hills  of  South  Dakota.  Here  he  was  employed  for  another  year  and 
went  from  the  Black  Hills  to  Colorado,  working  at  Leadville,  Aspen 
and  other  mining  camps,  acquiring  a  knowledge  of  mining  men  and 
mining  interests  that  has  proved  invaluable  to  him. 

He  came  to  Salt  Lake  in  1891,  and  was  a  pioneer  of  the  slogan 
that  Salt  Lake  is  a  city  of  opportunities.  From  the  day  he  opened  a 
real-estate  office  in  Salt  Lake  until  to-day  he  has  been  one  of  the  most 
successful  men  in  his  line  in  the  country.  He  devotes  his  entire  time 
and  attention  to  the  real-estate  business,  and  his  name  is  perhaps 
better  known  than  many  other  prominent  citizens  of  the  town.  He  is 
proud  of  the  city  of  Salt  Lake  and  is  always  willing  to  lend  his  moral 
and  financial  aid  to  anything  and  everything  that  will  accrue  to  its 
best  interests. 

While  not  a  club  man  in  any  sense  of  the  word,  and  although  he 
does  not  bother  with  politics,  he  is  prominent  in  the  Commercial  Club 
and  is  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  the  Salt  Lake  Real  Estate  Associa- 
tion. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Lucy  A.  Deakin  in  May,  1893,  and,  while  he 
has  no  children,  he  is  very  domestic  in  his  tastes  and  habits  and  spends 
much  of  his  time  at  his  comfortable  home  at  87  L  Street. 


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P.    L.    WILLIAMS 


PARLEY  LYCURGUS  WILLIAMS 

Parley  Lycurgus  Williams,  attorney  for  the  Harriman  railway  sys- 
tem in  Utah,  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  born  in  Perry  County,  April  7, 
1842.  His  father,  Samuel  Williams,  was  a  farmer,  and  his  mother 
was  Andromache  Moore.  Mr.  Williams'  early  life  was  spent  on  a  farm. 
He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and  in  the  McKendree  College 
at  Lebanon,  Illinois. 

When  twenty-six  years  of  age  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Wyo- 
ming, to  which  State  he  had  gone  to  begin  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
and  soon  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  was  elected  District  Attorney. 
Wyoming  was  then  a  territory,  and  his  jurisdiction  extended  over  a 
large  area  of  country. 

After  serving  one  term  as  District  Attorney,  he  came  to  Utah, 
arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  December,  1871,  and  he  has  since  resided 
and  practiced  his  profession  in  the  capital  city  of  Utah. 

In  1887,  when  the  government  escheated  the  property  of  the  Latter- 
day  Saints  Church,  Mr.  Williams  was  appointed  attorney  for  the 
receiver;  of  the  property,  United  States  Marshal  Dyer,  and  continued  in 
that  position  until  the  receivership  ended  and  the  property  was 
returned  to  the  church.  The  first  important  case  in  which  Mr.  Wil- 
liams was  engaged  in  Utah  was  as  attorney  for  the  defense  in  the  case 
of  the  People  vs.  Robert  T.  Burton,  who  was  charged  with  the  murder 
of  Mrs.  Bella  Bowman  during  the  "Morrisite  war"  of  1862.  The  case 
was  bitterly  contested  and  Mr.  Williams  was  victor,  the  jury  returning 
a  verdict  of  not  guilty. 

Mr.  Williams  became  interested  in  the  railroad  world  in  January, 
1872,  when,  with  a  number  of  other  gentlemen,  he  organized  the  Salt 
Lake  Street  Railway. 

Mr.  Williams  has  always  been  pronounced  in  his  convictions. 
When  on  July  4th,  1885,  the  flag  on  the  city  hall  was  half-masted, 
as  an  insult  to  the  flag  and  a  demonstration  of  treason  against  the 
government,  Mr.  Williams  was  the  first  to  denounce  the  outrage,  and 
was  the  principal  speaker  at  an  indignation  meeting  held  in  the  Fed- 
eral Court  room,  two  days  later. 

In  1886,  Mr.  Williams  was  appointed  Territorial  Superintendent 
of  District  Schools.  In  1893-4  he  was  a  member  of  the  upper  house  in 
the  Territorial  legislature.  These,  in  addition  to  the  position  of  Dis- 
trict Attorney  in  Wyoming,  are  the  only  political  offices  Mr.  Williams 
has  held. 

When  the  segregation  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad  from  the 
Union  Pacific  occurred,  Mr.  Williams  was  appointed  attorney  for  the 
system.  Afterwards  he  was  appointed  attorney  for  the  Union  Pacific 
and  Southern  Pacific  railroads  in  Utah,  and  for  the  Utah  Light  and 
Railway  Company. 

Mr.  Williams  was  married  in  1876  to  Catherine  Sharp.  Five  chil- 
dren were  born  to  them,  viz:  Kate,  Parley  Lycurgus,  Samuel,  Paul, 
and  Hugh.  All  of  them  are  living.  Mrs.  Williams  died  in  1901. 

Mr.  Williams  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  the  Alta, 
University  and  Country  clubs.  He  resides  with  his  children  at  No. 
177  Thirteenth  East  Street,  Salt  Lake  City. 

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SAMUEL    M  INTYRE 

Many  a  tale  of  frontier  life  in  the  Great  West  can  Samuel  Mclntyre 
tell,  when  he  will,  and  his  is  a  life  that  is  typical  of  the  successful 
pioneer.  As  stockraiser  and  mining  man,  Mr.  Mclntyre  has  won 
success  through  untiring  personal  effort,  and  with  a  breadth  of  view 
characteristic  of  the  man  who  spends  much  time  in  stock-raising 
regions,  he  has  not  been  slow  to  branch  out  into  other  pursuits  as  the 
development  of  the  inter-mountain  empire  warranted. 

Samuel  Mclntyre  was  born  December  16,  1845,  in  Grimes  County, 
Texas,  of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  His  father  was  William  Mclntyre,  a 
native  of  Louisiana,  who  later  became  a  farmer  and  land  dealer  in 
the  Lone  Star  State.  His  mother  was  Margaret  Anglin  Mclntyre. 

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When  the  boy  was  seven  years  old,  the  family  came  West,  and  Mr. 
Mclntyre  is  a  pioneer  of  1853.  He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  for  a  time  in  his  early  manhood  was 
engaged  in  the  "freighting"  business,  as  it  was  then  called.  In  this 
capacity  the  young  man  made  trips  in  the  early  days  to  Montana  and 
California,  along  the  trails  of  the  pioneers,  thus  acquiring  an  experi- 
ence and  an  education  which  no  amount  of  school  learning  could  ever 
give  him.  The  sturdy  self-dependence  which  he  acquired  at  that  time 
has  accompanied  him  throughout  a  career  already  both  long  and  useful, 
though  no  one  who  knows  him  would  call  Mr.  Mclntyre  an  old  man  yet. 

In  1867,  or  when  he  was  but  twenty-two  years  old,  Mr.  Mclntyre 
made  his  first  start  for  himself  in  the  cattle  business.  Even  now  it  is 
a  life  of  freedom,  and  not  without  its  hardships;  and  in  those  early 
days  it  was  even  more  so.  In  1870  Mr.  Mclntyre  drove  cattle  into 
Utah  from  Texas,  and  in  1872  he  went  to  Kansas  and  back  on  a  similar 
errand. 

Energy  such  as  this,  amid  the  opportunities  presented  in  the 
Western  field,  could  not  but  be  rewarded,  and  Mr.  Mclntyre  is  still 
known  throughout  the  West  as  one  of  its  most  successful  stockmen. 
He  is  the  owner  of  extensive  ranches  at  Halleck,  Nev.,  and  at  Tintic 
and  Lemington,  Utah,  carrying  in  all  about  10,000  head  of  both  cattle 
and  horses.  Mr.  Mclntyre  still  personally  sells  most  of  this  stock  at 
the  ranches. 

His  interest  in  the  stock,  however,  does  not  cease  with  raising  the 
animal  and  preparing  it  for  market.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Inter- 
mountain  Packing  Company,  which  does  an  extensive  export  business 
in  meats. 

With  horses,  too,  Mr.  Mclntyre  has  not  confined  himself  to  raising 
stock,  but  he  has  also  done  much  in  the  way  of  improving  the  breeds 
grown  in  Utah.  In  this,  too,  he  has  been  successful,  and  Crabapple, 
the  famous  pacer  with  a  mark  of  2 :08,  was  raised  and  bred  on  a 
Mclntyre  ranch. 

With  the  development  of  the  West  in  other  lines,  this  pioneer 
stockman  has  also  kept  pace.  He  is,  as  has  been  mentioned,  interested 
in  the  packing  industry,  and  also  in  mining,  financial  and  real-estate 
enterprises.  He  is  president  of  the  Mammoth  Mining  Company,  with 
properties  in  Nevada,  and  a  director  of  the  Melcher  Mine,  of  Idaho. 
He  is  director  of  the  Utah  Commercial  Savings  Bank,  and  has  exten- 
sive real-estate  interests  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Mclntyre  lives  in  a  fashionable  quarter  of  the  city,  at  130  Fifth 
East  Street.  His  wife  was  Mary  Alexander,  and  he  married  her  in 
1872,  on  Independence  Day.  They  have  had  eight  children,  namely: 
Robt.  Alexander  (deceased),  Samuel  G.,  William  LeRoy  (deceased), 
Frank,  Stella,  Lapere,  Earl  Lester  and  LeRoy. 


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O.    W.    POWERS 

Judge  0.  W.  Powers,  one  of  the  most  prominent  jurists  cf  Utah,  was  born  June  16th, 
1850,  at  Pultneyville,  Wayne  County,  New  York,  near  Palmyra.  His  ancestors  occupy 
honorable  places  in  the  history  of  England  and  Ireland,  and  many  of  them  appear  con- 
spicuously in  Colonial  and  Revolutionary  times. 

In  tlie  place  of  his  birth  he  passed  his  early  boyhood  with  his  parents,  who  were 
farmers.  He  secured  his  early  education  at  a  district  school  and  at  Sodus  Academy  and 
the  Marion  Collegiate  Institute  of  Wayne  County. 

Determining  to  become  a  lawyer,  Mr.  Powers  procured  a  copy  of  the  Revised  Statutes 
of  New  York,  which  he  studied  very  sedulously.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  was  given  his 
choice  of  taking  a  course  at  Cornell  University  or  the  University  of  Michigan.  He  chose 
the  latter,  and  graduated  in  1871. 

After  his  graduation  Mr.  Powers  returned  home  and  worked  on  tne  farm  for  a  time, 
in  order  to  obtain  the  means  with  which  to  begin  the  practice  of  law. 

In  1873  he  removed  to  Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  landing  there  with  less  than  one  hundred 
dollars,  and  with  no  experience  either  at  the  bar  or  in  a  law  office.  He  succeeded  in  obtain- 
ing a  position  as  clerk  with  the  law  firm  of  May  &  Buck,  and  received  for  his  services  his 
board  and  permission  to  sleep  in  a  room  back  of  the  office.  After  three  months  they  allowed 

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him  a  salary  of  ten  dollars  per  month  in  addition  to  his  board  and  lodging,  requiring  him, 
however,  to  put  into  the  firm  five  hundred  dollars  worth  of  law  books,  which  he  procured 
by  borrowing  the  money. 

He  advanced  rapidly  in  his  profession  and  was  soon  ably  handling  important  cases.  In 
the  midst  of  his  law  practice,  he  found  time  for  some  political  work.  In  1874  he  took  the 
stump  for  the  Democratic  Party,  and  was  thereafter  a  member  of  every  Democratic  State 
Convention  of  the  State  of  Michigan,  and  for  many  years  held  the  position  of  County 
Chairman  for  the  Democrats  of  Kalamazoo  County,  directing  his  party  in  several  hard- 
fought  campaigns. 

In  1875,  Mr.  Powers  succeeded  to  the  business  of  May  &  Buck  and  associated  himself 
with  Mr.  W.  H.  Daniels.  In  1876,  he  was  elected  City  Attorney  of  Kalamazoo.  In  the 
presidential  campaign  of  that  year,  he  stumped  the  State  for  Samuel  J.  Tilden.  He  also 
took  part  in  the  campaign  in  Indiana,  speaking  through  the  northern  part  with  Governor 
Hendricks  and  Daniel  W.  Voorhees.  A  strong  friendship  grew  up  between  Judge  Powers 
and  Governor  Hendricks  and  thereafter  the  former  was  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  great 
Indiana  statesman. 

In  1880,  without  his  consent,  Judge  Powers  was  unanimously  nominated  for  Congress 
from  the  Fourth  District  of  Michigan,  which  had  been  almost  uniformly  represented  by  a 
Republican.  He  was  defeated  by  Julius  Caesar  Burrows,  now  United  States  Senator. 

In  1882,  Mr.  Powers  wrote  "Chancery,  Practice  and  Pleading,"  and  in  1884  he  wrote 
"Powers'  Practice,"  both  of  which  are  recognized  authorities. 

In  1884  he  was  elected  to  the  Democratic  State  Convention  and  was  also,  the  same  year, 
one  of  the  four  delegates  at  large  from  Michigan  to  the  Democratic  National  Convention  at 
Chicago.. 

In  1885,  he  was  again  elected  City  Attorney  of  Kalamazoo,  and  during  the  same  year 
he  was  appointed,  by  President  Cleveland,  Associate  Justice  of  the  Third  District  of  Utah, 
and  in  May  of  that  year  he  took  the  oath  of  office  and  entered  upon  his  duties,  with  head- 
quarters at  Ogden. 

On  August  16th,  1886,  Judge  Powers  ceased  his  duties  on  the  bench,  and  was  succeeded 
by  Judge  H.  P.  Henderson,  of  Michigan.  He  then  returned  to  Michigan,  where  he  became 
editor  of  the  "Daily  Democrat"  at  Grand  Rapids. 

On  October  26th,  1887,  Judge  Powers  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  Whipple,  daughter  of 
George  Whipple,  an  old  resident  and  merchant  of  Burlington,  Iowa.  They  had  two  children, 
Don  Whipple  Powers,  who  died  in  1889,  and  the  other,  Roger  Woodworth  Powers. 

In  1887  Judge  Powers  returned  to  Utah  and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  has  built  up  a  large  and  lucrative  business. 

In  1888,  the  Liberal  Party,  which  had  been  growing  very  strong,  selected  Judge  Powers 
for  its  leader.  He  was  made  chairman  of  the  Liberal  Territorial- Committee,  and  conducted 
a  vigorous  campaign  throughout  Utah.  In  1889,  he  was  called  iipon  to  take  the  chairman- 
ship of  the  Liberal  Party  of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  accepted  and  laid  out  the  work  for  the 
hottest  political  campaign  ever  fought  in  Utah.  The.  election  resulted  in  a  victory  for 
the  Liberals,  for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  State,  by  a  majority  of  841  votes. 

Judge  Powers  remained  the  leader  of  the  Liberal  Party  until  its  dissolution,  in   1892. 

In  January,  1897,  Judge  Powers  was  a  candidate  for  the  United  States  Senate,  but 
before  the  balloting  he  withdrew  in  favor  of  Hon.  Moses  Thatcher.  The  latter  was,  however, 
defeated  by  Hon.  Joseph  Rawlins. 

In  1898,  Mr.  Powers  again  became  a  candidate  for  United  States  Senator  and  was  one 
of  the  leading  candidates  during  the  whole  session  of  the  legislature,  which  failed  to  elect 
a  Senator. 

On  August  26th,  1899,  an  attempt  was  made  by  an  ex-convict,  named  John  Y.  Smith. 
to  assassinate  Judge  Powers  by  means  of  an  infernal  machine  loaded  with  giant  powder 
and  fulminating  caps.  The  would-be  assassin  was  captured,  and  the  day  after  his  con- 
viction he  committed  suicide. 

In  1900,  Mr.  Powers  was  appointed  United  States  Senator  by  acting  Governor  Nebeker, 
but  he  declined  the  appointment.  The  same  year  he  was  Democratic  nominee  for  Presidential 
elector.  In  1904,  and  again  in  1906,  he  was  the  unanimous  choice  of  his  party  for  Con- 
gress. In  1908  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Democratic  National  Convention,  where,  in  a 
strong  and  eloquent  speech,  he  seconded  the  nomination  of  William  J.  Bryan  for  President 
of  the  United  States. 

Judge  Powers  is  the  head  of  one  of  the  leading  law  firms  of  Utah  and  is  employed  in 
cases  of  the  greatest  importance.  His  practice  is  very  large,  extending  over  Utah,  Wyoming, 
Idaho,  Nevada,  Colorado,  Washington  and  California;  and  comprising  all  branches  of  the 
law.  As  an  advocate,  he  has  few  equals  and  probably  no  superiors;  as  an  orator,  he  is 
forceful  and  brilliant.  His  late  case  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  in  which  he.  secured  the  acquittal 
of  Mrs.  Anna  M.  Bradley,  charged  with  the  murder  of  Ex-Senator  Arthur  Brown,  which  case 
is  still  fresh  in  the  minds  of  the  people  of  the  United  States,  is  one  of  his  most  notable 
achievements. 

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W.    S.    M  CORNICK 


William  S.  McCornick,  banker,  mining  magnate,  promoter  of  railroads,  and 
builder  of  great  enterprises,  is  one  of  the  stalwart  figures  of  the  great  State 
of  Utah,  and  one  of  the  foremost  and  best  known  men  of  the  inter-mountain 
country.  He  was  born  near  Picton,  Ontario,  Canada,  September  14,  1837.  His 
parents  were  George  and  Mary  McCornick,  and  his  mother's  maiden  name  was 
Vance.  They  were  farmers,  and  Mr.  McCornick  spent  his  early  days  at  hard 
manual  labor,  doing  what  fell  to  his  lot  to  assist  his  parents.  His  education 
was  obtained  at  the  public  schools,  but,  as  he  was  a  boy  of  more  than  ordinary 
intelligence,  he  determined  to  succeed,  and  educated  himself  in  a  practical  man- 
ner. He  remained  at  home  until  twenty-one,  when  he  decided  to  make  his  own 
way  in  life.  Being  lured  by  the  golden  opportunities  that  California  then 
offered,  he  went  there  and  lived  for  two  years  as  a  rancher  near  Marysville. 
Early  in  the  sixties  the  fame  of  the  great  Comstock  lode  drew  him  to  Nevada, 
where  he  spent  the  next  eleven  years,  engaged  in  lumbering  and  mining,  and 
here  laid  the  foundation  of  the  great  fortune  now  credited  to  him.  He  lived 
a  year  in  Virginia  City,  seven  in  Austin,  two  in  Hamilton,  and  one  in  Belmont. 
He  then  turned  to  Salt  Lake  City,  arriving  on  May  5,  1873.  In  June  of  the 
same  year  he  established  the  banking  business  which  has  grown  with  the  city, 
and  which  today,  under  the  name  of  McCornick  &  Company,  is  beyond  ques- 
tion the  largest  financial  institution  of  its  kind  between  the  Missouri  River 
and  the  Pacific  Ocean. 

Mr.  McCornick 's  experience  as  a  mining  man  in  Nevada  gave  foretaste 
for  larger  operations  in  the  same  line  in  Utah.  Eecognizing  early  the  wonder- 
ful mineral  resources  and  possibilities  of  Utah,  and  prudently  investing  much 
of  his  wealth  in  mines,  he  is  to-day  a  large  owner  in  some  of  the  most  valuable 
mining  properties  in  the  west,  notably  the  Silver  King,  Daly  "West,  Centennial- 
Eureka,  and  Grand  Central,  all  of  them  among  the  heaviest  dividend-payers 
in  the  region.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  American  Smelting  and  Refining 
Company,  and  an  officer  and  director  in  many  of  the  most  important  industrial, 
mining,  and  financial  concerns  in  the  inter-mountain  country. 

The  calm,  farseeing  judgment  of  Mr.  McCornick  has  not  only  resulted  in 
his  financial  eminence,  but  has  redounded  to  the  advantage  of  the  State  at  large. 
An  almost  unerring  gift  for  distinguishing  between  men  who  are  born  to  suc- 
ceed, and  those  seemingly  destined  to  fail,  backed  by  money  accumulated 
through  recognized  ability,  has  enabled  him  to  foster  both  public  and  individual 
enterprises  that  have  inured  to  the  lasting  advantage  of  Salt  Lake  City  and 
the  State  of  Utah,  and  in  many  cases,  public  and  private,  the  timely  help  of 
this  man,  and  a  keen  foresight  of  the  issues,  has  saved  many  from  personal 
failure,  and  allied  business  interests  from  financial  disaster. 

Mr.  McCornick,  while  not  a  politician,  has  always  taken  a  deep  interest 
in  public  affairs,  and  has  worked  zealously  to  better  conditions  and  to  help  the 
State.  In  1888  Mr.  McCornick  was  elected  to  the  common  council  of  Salt 
Lake  City.  Some  years  later  he  was  again  elected  and  served  the  city  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Council.  For  almost  twenty  years  he  was  president  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  the  State  Agricultural  College,  which  has  grown  into  a  great 
institution,  and  that  largely  through  his  progressive  management.  He  takes  a 
deep  interest  in  education.  He  was  the  first  president  of  the  Alta  Club,  is  a 
lover  of  fine  horses,  and  has  possessed  a  stable  containing  some  of  the  swiftest 
roadsters  in  Utah. 

Mr.  McCornick  was  married  in  January,  1867,  to  Miss  Hannah  Keogh  of 
Bellville,  Ontario,— a  union  which  resulted  in  the  birth  of  ten  children: 
William  (deceased),  Emma,  Henry  A.,  Harry  (deceased),  Clarence  K.,  Willis 
S.,  Lewis  B.,  Anna,  Albert  V.,  and  Genevieve.  Every  advantage  that  educa- 
tion and  travel  offer  has  been  accorded  their  children,  and  largely  shared  by 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  McCornick. 

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P.   J.   MOEAN 


P.  J.  MORAN 

Running  along  the  side  of  the  Wasatch  Range,  which  guards  the  eastern  side  of  the 
Salt  Lake  valley,  and  away  above  what  is  known  as  the  bench,  on  the  mountain  side,  is  a 
conduit.  One  can  walk  through  the  conduit  for  a  distance  of  eight  miles.  It  carries  a 
part  of  the  water  supply  for  Salt  Lake  City  and  is  known  as  the  Big  Cottonwood  Conduit. 
It  is  the  greatest  piece  of  work  of  its  kind  on  the  western  slope  of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  and 
among  the  largest  in  the  country.  It  will  always  stand  as  a  monument  to  its  builder, 
Patrick  J.  Moran. 

Born  in  Yorkshire,  England,  January  23rd,  1863,  left  fatherless  at  the  age  of  seven 
years,  engaged  in  active  work  at  ten  years  of  age,  Patrick  J.  Moran  has  carved  his  own  way 
through  the  world  and, is  in  every  sense  of  the  word  a  self-made  man.  His  parents  settled 
in  Yorkshire  in  1853,  his  father  being  Laurence  Moran  of  County  Mayo,  and  his  mother, 
Bridget  Durkin,  was  from  County  Sligo,  Ireland.  His  father  died  in  1870,  and  his  mother 
died  in  1902. 

Mr.  Moran's  early  life  was  spent  in  hard  work,  and  he  has  been  actively  at  work 
ever  since  he  was  ten  years  old.  His  education  was  acquired  in  the  workshop  and  by 
hard  study  of  later  years. 

When  fourteen  years  old,  Mr.  Moran  came  to  America,  landing  at  Baltimore  in  April. 
After  four  months'  residence  in  that  city  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  where  he  was  apprenticed 
to  a  steam-fitter,  and  in  that  city  he  learned  this  trade.  After  mastering  his  trade  he 
went  to  Chicago,  where  he  worked  as  journeyman  fitter  until  1887,  when  he  removed  to 
Omaha,  remaining  there  and  working  at  his  trade  until  September,  1887,  when  he  came 
to  Salt  Lake  City,  since  which  time  he  has  made  this  city  his  home. 

After  two  years  in  Salt  Lake  City,  working  at  steam-fitting,  he  began  business  for 
himself  as  contractor  in  steam-heating  and  ventilating  work.  While  in  this  business  he 
put  in  most  of  the  heating  plants  in  the  public  school  buildings  of  Salt  Lake;,  also  for 
the  new  State  University  in  Salt  Lake,  the  Agricultural  College  at  Logan,  mo'st  of  the 
prominent  business  blocks  and  residences  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  churches  arid  schools 
throughout  the  State. 

In  1900,  when  the  first  contract  was  let  by  the  city  for  the  installation  of  water-works 
construction,  Mr.  Moran  was  awarded  the  contract.  Three  years  later  he  entered  the  asphalt 
paving  business.  Almost  all  of  the  asphalt  paving  on  Salt  Lake,  streets  has  been  put  there 
by  Mr.  Moran,  and  of  his  work  it  can  be  said  that  it  is  of  the  best  possible  kind.  Nothing 
was  ever  slighted,  and  he  has  earned  the  reputation  of  doing  the  best  work  of ;  any  con- 
tractor in  any  city  in  the  country.  He  has  a  great  fortune  invested  in  his  plant,  which 
includes  everything  modern  for  expedition  and  thorough  work,  and  he  employs  an-  army  of 
workmen. 

In  addition  to  the  paving  and  the  construction  of  the  Big  Cottonwood  aqueduct,  he  has 
other  contract  work  in  the  way  of  constructing  .concrete  masonry  for  the  plant  of  the 
American  Smelting  and  Refining  Company  at  Garfield,  Utah,  the  largest  plant  of  its  kind 
in  the  United  States.  He  has  also  the  contract  to  build  the  Weber  Canyon  wooden-stave  pipe 
power  line,  an  immense  piece  of  work  for  the  Utah  Light  and  Railway  Company.  . 

Mr.  Moran  was  elected  in  1891  to  the  Territorial  Council  by  the  Liberal  Party,  and  in 
February,  1892,  was  elected  on  the  same  ticket  as  a  member  of  the  city  council  for  a 
term  of  two  years  from  the  fourth  precinct  of  Salt  Lake  City/  These  are  the  only  political 
offices  he  has  ever  held.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  and  Commercial  clubs,  and  also  of 
the  Elks. 

Mr.  Moran  was  married  in  1891,  to  Miss  Dollie  Shoebridge,  of  Salt  Lake.  Six  children 
were  born  them,  four  boys  and  two  girls,  all'living  with  his  family.  Mr.  Moran  lives  in  a 
handsome  home  at  1106  East  South  Temple .  Street. 


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GEO.   T.    ODELL 

George  T.  Odell,  one  of  Utah's  foremost  prominent  and  progressive 
citizens,  and  for  nearly  half  a  century  prominently  identified  with  the 
growth  and  upbuilding  of  Utah,  was  born  in  London,  England,  Dec. 
4,  1848.  He  is  a  son  of  Thomas  George  and  Ann  (Newman)  Odell, 
who  emigrated  to  Utah  in  April,  1861,  crossing  the  Atlantic  in  the  sail- 
ing vessel ' '  Underwriter, ' '  and  arriving  at  Salt  Lake  City,  September  30, 
1861.  The  elder  Odell  was  a  printer  and  publisher.  The  opportunities 
for  education  in  those  early  days  of  Utah  were  not  advantageous,  and, 
although  George  Odell  was  of  a  studious  nature  and  ambitious  to 
acquire  an  education,  he  did  not  have  the  facilities  of  the  boys  of 
the  present  generation,  and  had  to  acquire  what  knowledge  he  did 

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obtain  in  the  educational  line  by  hard  practical  knocks  as  he  grew  to 
manhood,  he  being  but  thirteen  years  of  age  when  he  arrived  here.  The 
family  first  located  at  Ogden,  Utah,  and  the  early  life  of  young  Odell 
was  spent  on  a  farm  until  1869,  but  he  had  some  newspaper  experi- 
ence in  the  meantime,  being  a  reporter  on  the  " Ogden  Junction,"  a 
paper  then  being  edited  by  Mr.  Penrose,  and  printed  by  Odell 's  father. 
He  subsequently,  in  1869,  entered  the  service  of  the  Central  Pacific 
Railway  as  brakeman,  and  later  as  conductor.  Leaving  the  service 
in  1878,  he  went  into  the  produce  and  shipping  business  in  Ogden.  He 
next  went  to  Bullionville,  Nevada,  in  charge  of  the  mercantile  interests 
of  the  Bullionville  Smelting  Company. 

In  1882  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  permanently  settled  here,  and  in 
1883  formed  the  vehicle,  machinery  and  implement  business  of  Grant, 
Odell  &  Co.,  which  later  was  merged  into  the  following  institutions  and 
in  the  order  named:  First  to  Grant,  Odell  &  Co.  (Inc.),  then  to  the 
Co-operative  Wagon  &  Machine  Co.,  and  on  February  13,  1902,  into 
the  Consolidated  Wagon  &  Machine  Co.,  which  latter  concern  took  over 
the  business  of  the  Consolidated  Implement  Co.,  with  Mr.  Odell  as 
general  manager.  To  the  credit  of  Mr.  Odell  it  may  be  said  that 
since  the  interests  have  been  merged  the  business  has  steadily  grown, 
until  to-day  it  is  the  largest  concern  of  its  kind  in  the  world,  all  of 
which  is  gratifying  to  Mr.  Odell  and  due  largely  to  his  efforts,  ability 
and  energy.  They  now  have  some  stores  all  through  the  Western 
country,  all  operated  by  their  own  employees,  and  the  commercial  rating 
of  the  institution  is  the  highest  attainable.  Mr.  Odell  is  a  man  of 
diversified  interests,  as  is  evidenced  by  his  activity  as  an  officer  or 
director  in  many  of  Utah's  most  substantial  institutions,  being  con- 
nected with,  as  a  director  or  official,  the  following  corporations:  The 
Bank  of  Garland,  Capitol  Hill  Improvement  Co.,  Consolidated  Wagon 
&  Machine  Co.,  First  National  Bank  of  Montpelier,  Glen  Lumber  Co., 
Heber  J.  Grant  &  Co.,  Karns  Tunneling  Machine  Co.,  Montana  Inde- 
pendent Telephone  Co.,  Odell-Wright  Investment  Co.,  Apex  Mines, 
Pittsburg-Salt  Lake  Oil  Co.,  Rexburg  Drug  Co.,  Romney  Lumber  Co., 
Sugar  City  Hardware  &  Lumber  Co.,  Sugar  City  Townsite  Co.,  Teton 
Lands,  Wright  Mercantile  Co.,  Witcher  Dam  Co.,  Beeman  &  Cashin 
Mercantile  Co.,  of  Evanston,  Wyoming,  and  many  others.  Mr.  Odell 
is  well  known  in  Eastern  business  circles,  is  a  Free  Mason  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Alta  and  the  Commercial  clubs  of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  was 
married  to  Miss  Florence  Caroline  Grant  at  Ogden,  Utah,  May  11,  1871, 
and  they  have  five  children,  Thomas  George,  Joshua  Frederick,  Flor- 
ence Louise,  Adelaide  Eugene  and  Ethel  Marie.  The  family  reside 
at  254  Fourth  East  Street,  Salt  Lake  City. 


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HENRY    WALLACE 

Prom  making  molasses  to  making  confectionery,  and  then  to  making 
crackers,  until  lie  became  the  head  of  the  National  Biscuit  Company, 
the  largest  manufacturer  of  crackers  in  this  inter-mountain  empire, 
and,  while  doing  this,  to  look  after  various  other  matters,  including  a 
mission  to  the  old  world,  would  indicate  that  the  person  who  did  all 
this  must  have  wonderful  vitality  and  nerve  and  push.  This  is  the 
career  of  Henry  Wallace,  head  of  the  National  Biscuit  Company  in 
Utah.  Born  in  Somersetshire,  England,  April  27,  1840,  his  parents 


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being  of  good  old  Scotch  stock,  his  father  a  cloth-weaver,  Henry  Wal- 
lace soon  learned  what  it  was  to  labor;  and,  after  acquiring  an  educa- 
tion in  the  National  school,  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  confectioner  and 
baker  in  Frome,  England,  which  trade  he  mastered. 

When  in  his  fourteenth  year  he  was  baptized  into  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter-day  Saints,  and  since  then  has  been  a  firm 
believer  in  that  faith.  At  twenty-two  years  of  age  he  went  to  London, 
and  in  his  twenty-third  year  he  left  England  for  Utah,  sailing  from 
Liverpool,  May  12,  1862,  and  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City,  October  5th 
of  the  same  year.  His  trip  across  the  plains  from  St.  Joseph  was 
made  with  the  Hancel  Harmon  party. 

On  arriving  here,  Mr.  Wallace  worked  with  Levi  North  at  Mill 
Creek,  making  molasses.  He  then  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade 
for  about  nine  months,  during  which  time  he  made  seats  for  the  Taber- 
nacle at  Bountiful.  Then  he  engaged  with  William  Eddington,  who 
ran  a  general  store,  bakery  and  lunchroom.  This  was  in  1863.  Four 
years  later  he  bought  out  the  business,  which  he  continued  until  1875, 
when  he  closed  up  the  business  and  entered  the  company  of  Jennings 
and  Saddler,  and  at  once  was  put  in  charge  of  the  grocery  department. 
He  remained  ten  years  with  this  firm,  and  in  April,  1885,  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  George  Husler  and  purchased  the  business  of  the 
Utah  Cracker  Company.  This  business  was  continued  until  1889,  when 
the  firm  dissolved,  Mr.  Wallace  purchasing  his  partner's  interest,  and 
continuing  the  business  until  1892,  when  he  sold  his  establishment  to 
the  American  Biscuit  &  Manufacturing  Company,  Mr.  Wallace  'remain- 
ing as  manager.  Six  years  later,  when  the  National  Biscuit  Company 
was  formed,  the  American  Company  in  Salt  Lake  was  dissolved  and 
Mr.  Wallace  was  made  manager  of  the  new  corporation,  which  position 
he  still  retains. 

Mr.  Wallace  has  always  been  a  business  man.  Politics  has  had  no 
allurements  for  him,  although  he  has  been  tendered  many  nominations. 
He  did  consent  to  serve  the  people  twice,  once  as  a  member  of  the  Salt 
Lake  City  Council  in  1907,  and  as  school  trustee  of  the  Seventh  District. 
It  was  while  in  the  latter  position  that  a  contest  between  the  Mormons 
and  non-Mormons  occurred  over  a  tax  voted  by  the  former  for  the 
erection  of  a  schoolhouse,  which  was  finally  decided  by  Judge  Zane  in 
favor  of  the  Mormon  trustee. 

Mr.  Wallace  was  married  on  February  7,  1863,  to  Miss  Ellen  Har- 
per. Nine  children  were  born  to  them,  all  of  whom  are  living.  They 
are :  Henry  J.,  William  R.,  Howard  A.,  Eosetta  E.,  George  H.,  Mary 
Ellen,  Walter  A.,  Mabel  K.,  and  Ashley  H. 

Mr.  Wallace  is  one  of  the  best  known  citizens  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  is  a  hale,  hearty  and  vigorous  man.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat. 
He  is  a  member  of  but  one  club,  the  Commercial  Club  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

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RON.    JOHN    T.    CAINE 


HON.  JOHN  THOMAS  CAINE 

John  Thomas  Caine  was  born  in  the  parish  of  Kirk  Patrick,  Isle  of 
Man,  on  January  8,  1829.  When  but  six  years  of  age  he  was  virtually 
an  orphan,  his  father  having  emigrated  to  America,  his  mother  being1 
dead,  and  having  no  brothers  or  sisters.  .He  was  taken  into  the  home 
of  Hugh  Cubbon,  his  grandfather.  Later  he  went  to  live  with  an  aunt, 
Mrs.  William  Cowley,  who  took  a  motherly  interest  in  the  little  fellow 
and  sent  him  to  school. 

At  an  early  age  he  was  urged  to  obtain  some  knowledge  of  the 
tailor's  trade,  with  a  view  of  fitting  himself  to  take  a  position  in  an 
uncle's  merchant  tailoring  establishment.  This  work  did  not  appeal  to 
him,  and,  being  ambitious  to  seek  his  fortune  in  America,  he  laid  his 
plans  accordingly.  An  opportunity  to  gratify  his  desire  came  in  the 
form  of  a  small  sum  of  money,  left  him  by  his  grandfather,  and  he 
sailed  for  America  in  1846. 

His  knowledge  of  the  tailoring  business  stood  him  in  good  stead 
upon  his  arrival  in  New  York,  and  he  was  thus  enabled  to  earn  a  liveli- 
hood without  difficulty.  It  was  while  in  New  York  that  he  embraced 
the  Mormon  religion  and  became  an  active  worker  in  that  faith. 

In  1850  Mr.  Caine  married  Margaret  Nightingale,  and  two  years 
later  found  the  Caine  family  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  where  he 
employed  various  ways  of  earning  a  livelihood,  chiefly  that  of  teaching 
school.  He  was  called  upon  a  mission  to  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  where 
he  remained  for  over  two  years. 

Soon  after  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Mr.  Caine  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  original  Deseret  Dramatic  Association,  and  later  was  one  of 
the  prime  movers  in  the  building  of  the  Salt  Lake  Theatre. 

John  T.  Caine  has  the  distinction  of  having  represented  Utah  in 
the  Congress  of  the  United  States  by  a  longer  period  than  any  other 
man.  He  was  first  elected  to  the  Forty-seventh  Congress  as  successor 
to  George  Q.  Cannon,  whose  seat  had  been  denied.  He  was  thereafter 
elected  as  Territorial  representative  to  the  48th,  49th,  50th,  51st,  and 
52nd  Congresses.  He  was  immensely  popular  with  the  people  of  Utah, 
and  his  services  in  Congress  were  highly  satisfactory  to  them.  He  was 
afterwards  very  prominent  and  influential  in  securing  the  admission 
of  Utah  as  a  State. 

On  September  5,  1895,  Mr.  Caine  was  unanimously  nominated  for 
the  first  governor  of  the  State  of  Utah,  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  which 
ticket,  however,  was  defeated.  In  1896  he  was  carried  to  victory  for 
State  Senator  on  the  same  ticket. 

Mr.  Caine  is  the  father  of  thirteen  children.  Though  a  public  man, 
whose  duties  have  kept  him  from  home  a  great  deal  of  the  time,  Mr. 
Caine  is  a  lover  of  his  home  and  devotedly  attached  to  his  wife  and 
children. 

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E.    J.    EADDATZ 


EMIL  JOHN  EADDATZ 

A  resident  of  America  since  August,  1869,  Emil  John  Baddatz  has 
carved  out  for  himself  a  notable  place  among  the  prominent  citizens 
of  Utah. 

Mr.  Baddatz  was  born  October  5th,  1857,  in  the  far-off  city  of  Stettin, 
Germany,  his  father  being  Otto  C.  Baddatz,  a  merchant  of  Stettin,  and 
his  mother  Wilhelmina  C.  Baddatz.  He  was  educated  at  the  Stettin 
High  School  and  later  in  the  schools  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he 
made  his  home  prior  to  coming  to  Colorado  in  1875,  and  to  Utah  in 
1886.  In  June,  1890,  he  was  married,  in  St.  Louis,  to  Miss  Emma  Gruth 
of  that  city,  and  a  family  of  four  girls  and  one  boy,  namely,  Pearl, 
Flora  Belle,  Eunice,  Lucille  and  Harold  have  since  blessed  the  union. 

Mr.  Baddatz  early  turned  his  attention  to  mining  matters,  and  for 
some  years  past  has  been  president  of  the  Tintic  Standard  Mining 
Company,  the  B.  &  S.  Promoting  Company,  the  Electric  Utility  Com- 
pany, the  Duluth  and  Utah  and  the  North  Beck  Mining  Company.  He 
is  also  a  director  in  the  Lion  Hill  Consolidated  Mining  Company,  the 
Polar  Star,  the  Honerine  Extension,  Montana  Mining  Company,  and 
the  Honerine  West  Mining  Company,  in  all  of  which  concerns  his  efforts 
have  been  notably  successful. 

Mr.  Baddatz  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  a  Shriner,  and  a 
leading  light  in  the  local  lodge  of  Elks.  In  1875  he  came  to  Denver, 
and  since  then  has  been  steadily  engaged  in  mining  in  Colorado, 
Nevada,  California  and  Old  Mexico.  In  1886  he  took  charge  of  the 
Calumet  and  Silver  King  Mines  in  Stockton,  Utah,  and  since  that  time 
has  made  his  headquarters  in  Salt  Lake. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  find  a  man  more  nearly  typical  of  his  profes- 
sion than  E.  J.  Baddatz.  Possessed  of  a  good  stock  of  health,  a  kindly 
disposition  and  an  inherent  sense  of  fair  play,  these  qualities  have 
placed  him  in  an  enviable  position  among  the  members  of  his  profes- 
sion. Socially,  as  in  a  business  way,  Mr.  Baddatz  has  been  a  success. 
Known  as  a  man  of  versatile  education  and  wide  experience,  he  is  at 
once  popular  with  old  and  young,  and  many  a  time  he  has  been  known 
to  go  out  of  his  way  to  extend  the  helping  hand  of  friendship  to  some 
less  fortunate  brother  in  adversity.  Mr.  Baddatz 's  home  life  is  a  very 
happy  one,  his  beautiful  home  at  1140  Second  Avenue  being  frequently 
the  scene  of  merry  parties  and  other  entertainments,  at  which  a  good 
time  has  always  been  a  foregone  conclusion. 

Prom  the  standpoint  of  a  position  of  prominence  earned  by  his  own 
industry  and  ability,  Mr.  Baddatz  is  enabled  to  look  back  over  the  past 
where  failure  is  but  little  known  and  forward  upon  a  future  rich  in  the 
promise  of  this  world's  goods. 


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JOS.   A.   SILVER 


JOSEPH  A.  SILVER 

President  and  general  manager  of  the  Silver  Bros.  Iron  Works 
Company,  Joseph  A.  Silver  is  prominent  not  only  in  Salt  Lake  busi- 
ness circles,  but  in  the  iron  and  steel  industry,  in  which,  as  far  as  the 
West  is  concerned,  he  may  well  be  classed  as  a  leader. 

From  his  youth  up  Mr.  Silver  has  been  connected  with  the  great 
business  which  bears  his  name.  He  has  devoted  his  time  and  energy 
to  it,  and  this,  combined  with  a  strong  sense  of  honor  in  business  deal- 
ings, has  made  his  name  and  that  of  his  firm  a  synonym  for  high 
integrity,  not  only  in  Utah,  but  in  the  other  States  where  the  enormous 
business  carried  on  by  the  company  extends.  From  a  small  beginning, 
made  a  number  of  years  ago,  the  industry  carried  on  by  the  Silver  Bros. 
Iron  Works  Company  has  grown  until  it  is  one  of  the  largest  of  its 
kind  west  of  the  Mississippi.  A  small  shop  at  its  inception,  it  now 
covers  an  entire  block.  The  buildings  housing  the  plant  are  all  modern 
in  design,  the  equipment  is  of  the  latest,  and  the  patterns  the  most 
improved,  and  capable  of  turning  out  a  superior  class  of  work  of  all 
kinds  in  this  particular  branch  of  manufacturing. 

Prior  to  1898  the  business  was  not  incorporated,  being  carried  on 
by  a  partnership  composed  of  Joseph  A.  Silver,  John  A.  Silver  and 
Hyrum  A.  Silver.  But  in  that  year  the  concern  was  incorporated, 
John  and  Hyrum  Silver  withdrawing  from  the  company  and  leaving 
Joseph  A.  Silver,  its  practical  founder,  in  control.  Even  at  that  time 
the  demand  for  the  products  of  the  company,  created  by  the  honest  work 
turned  out,  and  the  reputation  which  Mr.  Silver  early  established  for 
fair  dealing,  was  such  as  to  tax  the  capacity  of  the  plant.  Desiring  to 
enlarge  the  production,  Mr.  Silver  associated  with  himself  in  the  enter- 
prise several  of  Utah's  captains  of  finance,  prominent  among  whom  is 
Mr.  Lewis  S.  Hills,  president  of  the  Deseret  National  Bank,  widely 
known  through  his  excellent  business  judgment,  and  the  fact  that  a 
pleasing  personality  has  won  for  him  a  large  circle  of  friends. 

With  such  men  as  Mr.  Hills  allied  with  him,  Mr.  Silver,  proceeding 
along  modern  lines,  began  the  work  of  remodeling  and  enlarging  the 
plant  of  the  Silver  Bros.  Iron  Works  Company,  using  his  long  experi- 
ence in  the  business  to  such  advantage  that  the  manufactory  is  classed 
among  the  best  of  its  kind  in  the  country.  Its  equipment  enables  it  to 
take  and  execute  in  the  most  satisfactory  manner  all  kinds  of  con- 
tracts relating  to  the  work  of  a  foundry  and  to  iron  and  steel  designs. 
Back  of  this  great  industry,  employing  its  hundreds  of  men,  and  of 
which  Salt  Lake  is  proud,  stands  Joseph  A.  Silver^  to  whose  strict  integ- 
rity and  dogged  persistence  are  due  the  great  works  of  which  he  is  the 
guiding  hand. 

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J.    H.    MOYLE 


JAMES  H.  MOYLE 

James  H.  Moyle,  one  of  Utah's  most  representative  attorneys,  is  a 
native  of  Salt  Lake  City,  having  been  born  there  September  17,  1858. 
His  father,  James  Moyle,  was  a  successful  builder  and  contractor,  and 
his  mother  was  Elizabeth  Wood  Moyle.  J.  H.  Moyle  was  educated  in  the 
district  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  later  took  a  course  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Utah,  graduating  in  1881.  He  subsequently  took  the  course  at 
the  University  of  Michigan  Law  School,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1885,  and  was  a  student  for  three  years  also  at  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan in  its  School  of  Political  Science. 

Mr.  Moyle  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Utah  and  of  Michigan  in 
1885,  and  later  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.  He  was 
Assistant  City  Attorney  and  Deputy  County  Attorney  for  one  year,  and 
was  elected  County  Attorney  in  1886,  and  re-elected  in  1888.  The  same 
year  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  State  legislature.  He  was  chair- 
man of  the  committee  in  1889  which  visited  the  principal  Bef orm  Schools 
of  the  United  States,  and  upon  whose  report  our  Territorial  Reform 
School  was  established.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Democratic  State 
Committee  in  the  campaigns  of  1898  and  1899,  and  his  party  was 
victorious  in  both.  During  the  last  day  of  the  legislature  in  1899,  Mr. 
Moyle  was  the  caucus  nominee  of  the  Democratic  Party  for  United 
States  Senator;  but  no  Senator  was  elected  because  of  so  many  mem- 
bers being  held  by  obligations  to  A.  W.  McCune,  from  which  he  would 
not  release  them.  Hence  the  deadlock. 

Mr.  Moyle  was  the  choice  of  the  Democrats  as  their  candidate  for 
governor  in  1900  and  1904,  and  in  the  latter  campaign  led  his  ticket 
in  number  of  votes  received  by  him.  He  also  has  taken  a  keen  interest 
in  live  stock,  its  conventions  and  organizations,  and  was  for  many  years 
a  director  of  the  Utah  Fair  Association.  He  was  also  for  many  years 
a  trustee  of  the  Reform  School,  and  for  two  years  was  president  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  that  institution.  While  Mr.  Moyle  is  active  in 
business,  farming,  live  stock,  and  mining,  he  has  been  more  attentive  to 
his  large  legal  practice.  The  law  firm  was  originally  Richards  &  Moyle ; 
later  on,  Moyle,  Zane  &  Costigan;  and  at  the  present  time,  Moyle  &  Van 
Cott,  and  their  clientage  and  law  business  is  one  of  the  largest  in  the 
State. 

Mr.  Moyle  is  a  director  in  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Machine 
Company,  the  Deseret  Live  Stock  Company,  the  Utah  Commercial  and 
Savings  Bank,  the  Silver  Brothers'  Iron  Works  Company,  the  Inter- 
Mountain  Packing  Company,  the  Utah  Independent  Telephone  Com- 
pany, the  Utah  Consolidated  Plaster  Company,  the  Blackfoot  Stock 
Company,  and  many  other  important  enterprises,  especially  mining 
companies,  too  numerous  to  mention. 

Mr.  Moyle  was  married  to  Alice  E.  Dinwoodey,  November  17,  1887, 
and  they  are  the  parents  of  eight  children,  of  whom  six  are  living, 
namely:  Henry  D.,  Alice  E.,  Walter  G.,  Gilbert  D.,  James  D.,  and 
Sarah  Virginia  Moyle. 

Mr.  Moyle  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club  and  president  of 
the  Utah  Democratic  Club.  He  resides  at  405  East  First  South  Street, 
Salt  Lake  City. 

153 


DAVID   ECCLES 


DAVID  ECCLES 

David  Eccles,  one  of  the  most  prominent,  progressive  and  best  known  citizens  of  the 
entire  inter-mountain  region,  was  born  at  Paisley,  Rentfrashire,  Scotland,  on  the  12th  day 
of  May,  1849,  the  same  year  that  gold  was  first  discovered  in  California.  He  is  the  son  of 
William  Eccles,  who  was  a  wood-turner  by  trade,  and  of  Sarah  Hutchinson  Eccles. 

Mr.  Eccles  received  a  common-school  education  in  Scotland;  and  in  the  spring  of  1863, 
when  fourteen  years  old,  emigrated  with  his  parents,  brothers  and  sisters  to  America, 
arriving  at  Ogden  City,  Utah,  in  October  of  the  same  year.  Mr.  Eccles  first  made  his  home 
in  that  city,  but  soon  moved  to  Ogden  Valley,  and  became  the  sole  support  of  his  father's 
family,  working  for  wages  in  the  timber  and  on  the  farms. 

In  1867  Mr.  David  Eccles  decided  to  go  farther  West  and  went  into  Oregon.  After 
looking  around  for  a  location,  he  finally  settled  at  Oregon  City,  and  thereupon  went  to 
work  for  a  couple  of  years  in  the  adjacent  forests  of  Oregon  and  Washington.  In  1869 
Mr.  Eccles  returned  to  Ogden  Valley,  resumed  his  work  in  the  timber,  until  in  1873,  by 
thrift  and  economy  he  had  saved  enough  money  to  be  able  to  invest  in  a  sawmill.  He 
thereupon  entered  into  partnership  with  Messrs.  Gibson  and  Van  Noy,  who  in  1874,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Gibson,  Eccles  &  Van  Noy,  opened  a  lumber  yard  upon  the  present  site 
of  the  great  lumber  business  now  owned  by  Mr.  Eccles  in  Odgen  City.  This  firm  continued 
in  existence  until  1880,  after  which  Mr.  Eccles  continued  the  business  alone  until  1889. 
Avhen  he  organized  the  present  Eccles  Lumber  Company. 

In  the  meantime,  however,  Mr.  Eccles  had  not  lost  sight  of  the  very  promising  lumber 
prospects  of  the  State  of  Oregon.  He  felt  satisfied  that  the  forests  of  that  State  and  of  the 
State  of  Washington  presented  excellent  opportunities  for  profitable  investments;  and, 
acting  upon  that  idea,  Mr.  Eccles  again  went  to  Oregon  in  1886,  and  there  began  the  many 
lumber  and  other  interests  he  now  owns  in  the  State.  Among  other  things,  Mr.  Eccles  built 
two  railroads  in  the  State  of  Oregon;  one  (the  Sumpter  Valley  Railroad)  running  from 
Baker  City  into  the  John  Day  country,  and  the  other  (the  Mount  Hood  Railroad)  running 
from  Hood  River  City  toward  Mount  Hood. 

Mr.  Eccles'  interests  in  the  West  are  so  many  and  so  varied  that  it  is  perfectly  safe 
to  assert  that  no  other  man  in  Utah  is  engaged  in  so  many  important  and  successful  business 
enterprises  as  he  is.  Mr.  Eccles  is  president  of  several  banks,  prominent  among  which  are 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Ogden  and  the  Ogden  Savings  Bank,  besides  being  heavily 
interested  in  many  other  banks  throughout  the  State.  He  is  also  president  or  principal 
director  of  the  Amalgamated  Sugar  Company,  the  Lewiston  Sugar  Company,  the  Ogden  Rapid 
Transit  Company,  the  Sumpter  Valley  Railroad  Company,  the  Eccles  Lumber  Company,  the 
Oregon  Lumber  Company,  the  U.  O.  Lumber  Company,  the  Mount  Hood  Railroad  Company, 
and  many  other  smaller  industrial  and  mercantile  institutions.  Lately  Mr.  Eccles  and  his 
associates  purchased  the  Sparks-Harrell  ranches  in  Nevada  and  Idaho,  at  a  cost  of  about 
a  million  dollars,  and  organized  the  same  under  the  name  of  Vineyard  Land  and  Stock 
Company,  of  which  corporation  Mr.  Eccles  is  president  and  principal  stockholder.  Mr. 
Eccles  is  also  president  of  that  gigantic  and  well-known  railroad-constructing  corporation, 
the  Utah  Construction  Company,  which  is  now  building  a  railroad  for  the  Western  Pacific 
from  Utah  to  California,  constituting  the  largest  railroad  contract  ever  let  to  any  one 
company  west  of  Chicago;  and  this  immense  undertaking  was  largely  made  possible  by 
Mr.  Eccles'  financial  standing  and  personal  integrity,  which  was  and  is  so  well  known 
in  railroad  circles  both  East  and  West. 

On  December  27th,  1875,  Mr.  Eccles  married  Miss  Bertha  N.  Jensen,  a  native  of  Den- 
mark, and  he  is  now  the  father  of  a  large  family  of  boys  and  girls.  Despite  Mr.  Eccles' 
many  interests,  he  has  nevertheless  found  time  to  serve  the  community  in  which  he  has 
resided.  From  1885  to  1887  he  served  as  alderman,  and  from  1887  to  1889  he  was  mayor 
of  Ogden  City,  and  it  was  because  of  his  push  and  enterprise  that  the  present  City  Hall 
was  built  during  his  administration. 

Though  Mr.  Eccles  is  accounted  among  the  wealthiest  men  in  the  State  of  Utah,  he  is 
quite  unassuming  and  easy  to  approach.  He  is  a  man  with  a  generous  and  kind  disposition; 
one  who  bears  malice  toward  none,  and  his  charities  are  many  and  unostentatious.  Indeed, 
he  is  in  every  respect  a  model  citizen,  a  splendid  business  director,  and  a  man  of  great 
value  to  the  community. 


155 


LAFAYETTE  HOLBROOK 


LAFAYETTE  HOLBROOK 

Among  the  most  prominent  of  Utahans  is  Lafayette  Holbrook  of 
Provo,  who  was  twice  mayor  of  that  city,  serving  from  1893  to  1897. 

Mr.  Holbrook  is  a  native  of  Utah,  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  September 
7,  1850.  His  ancestors  were  early  New  Englanders,  his  grandfather, 
Moses  Holbrook,  being  a  native  of  the  Bay  State,  born  in  Sturbridge  in 
1779.  His  father,  Chandler  Holbrook,  who  was  an  engineer,  and  his 
mother,  Eunice  Dunning,  were  born  in  New  York  and  were  pioneers 
of  Utah.  They  resided  in  Salt  Lake  City  until  1852.  When  Lafayette 
Holbrook  was  two  years  old  they  removed  to  Fillmore,  where  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  resided  until  1880. 

During  his  residence  in  Fillmore  he  engaged  in  farming  and  stock- 
raising,  particularly  the  latter.  In  1871  he  purchased  cattle  in  the  region 
around  Abilene,  Kansas,  and  drove  them  to  Utah,  and  in  1873  he  visited 
Texas,  where  he  purchased  cattle  and  drove  them  also  through  to  Utah. 

In  October,  1873,  Mr.  Holbrook  went  to  Europe.  During  his  sojourn 
there  he  visited  France,  but  spent  most  of  his  time  in  the  British  Isles, 
returning  to  Utah  in  1875.  In  1876  he  was,  on  October  9th,  married  to 
Emily  A.  Hinckley.  Ten  children  were  born  to  them,  seven  of  whom 
are  living.  They  are:  Lafayette  H.,  Jean  Clara,  Eunice  A.,  Ora  L., 
Florence  L.,  Ruth  and  Lincoln  Holbrook.  Those  dead  are  Emmet  G., 
Ava  Luvile  and  Lillian  M. 

In  1877  Mr.  Holbrook  was  elected  assessor  and  collector  of  Millard 
County,  which  office  he  held  four  years.  In  December,  1880,  he 
removed  from  Fillmore,  going  to  Frisco,  in  Beaver  County,  where  he 
for  seven  years  engaged  in  merchandising  and  mining.  He  has  retained 
his-  interest  in  a  number  of  mining  and  industrial  companies  which  he 
developed  and  built  up,  both  in  Utah  and  in  other  States.  He  is  an 
official  in  many  of  these  and  manager  of  several. 

In  1890  Mr.  Holbrook  removed  from  Fillmore  to  Provo,  where  he 
still  resides.  He  was  proprietor  for  seven  years  of  the  Roberts  House, 
one  of  the  best  known  hostelries  in  Utah.  He  has  aided  in  the  devel- 
opment of  many  Utah  County  enterprises. 

In  1896  Mr.  Holbrook  was  the  Republican  nominee  for  congressman, 
but  with  his  party  was  defeated,  due  to  the  battle  waged  for  silver  in 
the  State. 

His  oldest  son,  Lafayette  H.,  has  spent  three  and  one-half  years 
abroad,  going  around  the  world,  departing  from  Vancouver,  British 
Columbia,  and  returning  via  New  York.  While  on  his  tour  he  visited 
many  of  the  islands  of  the  Pacific,  Australia,  the  Holy  Land  and  many 
other  places  in  the  old  world.  His  three  eldest  daughters,  Jean  Clara, 
Eunice  A.,  and  Ora  L.,  have  visited  Europe,  Jean  Clara  remaining  there 
for  two  years. 

Mr.  Holbrook  has  ever  been  alive  to  the  moral  and  material  interests 
of  the  communities  in  which  he  has  resided. 

157 


WM.    H.    KING 


WILLIAM  H.  KING 

Prominent  among  the  legal  talent  of  Salt  Lake  City  is  William 
Henry  King,  formerly  associate  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Utah, 
and  for  a  number  of  years  closely  identified  with  public  life  in  the 
State. 

Mr.  King  was  born  in  Fillmore  City,  Utah,  June  3,  1863.  His 
father  was  William  King,  and  his  mother  Josephine  Henry.  At  the 
age  of  seventeen  he  was  graduated  from  the  Brigham  Young  Academy, 
and  later  he  attended  the  University  of  Utah.  After  spending  two  and 
one-half  years  in  Europe,  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  University 
of  Michigan,  graduating  from  the  law  department  of  that  school  in  1888. 

April  17,  1889,  he  was  married  to  Annie  Lyman,  and  about  the  same 
time  he  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Provo  City.  Judge  King,  as  he 
is  known  in  Salt  Lake  City,  was  early  drawn  into  public  life,  and  from 
time  to  time  he  has  been  elected  and  appointed  to  various  offices  of 
trust  in  Utah.  He  has  served  three  terms  in  the  legislature  of  the 
State,  also  a  term  as  president  of  the  Senate,  in  Territorial  days.  In 
1894  he  was  appointed  by  President  Cleveland  to  the  position  of  associ- 
ate Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  Utah,  and  in  1896  he  was  elected 
to  represent  his  State  in  Congress. 

He  refused  the  nomination  for  the  same  office  in  1898,  but  was  a 
candidate  for  the  senatorship  that  year.  A  deadlock  occurring,  no  one 
was  elected.  Mr.  King1  was  again  elected  to  Congress  at  a  special 
election  held  April  3,  1900.  That  same  year,  and  again  in  1902,  he 
was  the  unanimous  choice  of  his  party  for  nomination  to  Congress,  but 
failed  of  election.  Since  then  he  has  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the 
leadership  of  the  Democratic  party  in  Utah,  and  in  1908  he  was  dele- 
gate to  the  National  Convention  at  Denver,  and  later  was  the  choice 
of  his  party  in  the  Utah  legislature  for  the  United  States  Senate. 

Mr.  King  is  senior  member  of  the  legal  firm  of  King  &  Burton,  one 
of  the  best  known  law  firms  in  the  West.  Personally  he  has  a  host  of 
friends  in  every  part  of  the  inter-mountain  country,  and  he  has  at 
all  times  been  regarded  as  representing  the  highest  type  of  American 
culture  and  ability. 


159 


TOXY    JACOBSON 


COLUMBUS  CONSOLIDATED  MINING  CO. 

Many  years  ago  the  Little  Cottonwood  mining  district  of  Utah, 
better  known  as  Alta,  was  one  of  the  most  generous  ore-producing 
sections  of  the  West.  The  little  camp  lay  hidden  in  precipitous  moun- 
tains, and  it  was  this  fact  that  killed  the  camp  for  a  great  many  years 
after  a  record  of  splendid  merit.  Snowslides  cleaned  the  town  out 
completely,  killing  scores  of  people,  and  the  desertion  of  the  camp  was 
complete. 

In  1902,  Tony  Jacobson,  a  practical  miner,  prospected  Alta  thor- 
oughly, and  he  discovered  mineral  in  such  quantity  that  he  determined 
to  rejuvenate  the  camp,  snowslides  or  no  snowslides.  In  April,  1902, 
he  organized  the  Columbus  Consolidated  Mining  Company,  interesting 
some  of  the  strongest  banking  talent  of  Salt  Lake  City  in  the  company. 

The  property  necessarily  was  developed  by  means  of  tunnels,  and 
the  main  tunnel  has  given  a  great  vertical  depth  on  the  resources.  The 
ores  occur  on  the  upper  levels  as  lead-silver  carbonates,  and  at  depth 
these  have  given  way  to  the  sulphides,  while  considerable  gold  and 
copper  values  have  entered  the  ores. 

During  1907  the  company  began  paying  dividends,  distributing  a 
total  of  $212,623.50  until  a  great  fault  threw  the  resources  into  the 
unprobed  heart  of  the  mountains.  Since  that  time  the  management 
has  been  engaged  in  developing  still  deeper  into  the  hills,  fighting 
against  great  odds  incident  to  an  abundance  of  water  on  the  lower 
levels  and  the  distance  from  railroad  transportation.  Early  in  1909 
the  elusive  remainder  of  the  known  ore  bodies  were  discovered,  400 
feet  below  the  main  tunnel,  and  since  that  time  the  company  has  been  a 
regular  contributor  of  ores  to  the  Salt  Lake  smelters.  Dividends  will 
in  all  probability  be  resumed  during  1909. 

The  story  of  the  Columbus  Consolidated  Company  illustrates  the 
way  in  which  man  will  fight  the  elements  to  gain  success.  Mr.  Jacob- 
son  has  had  to  contend  against  bad  camp  history,  yearly  snowslides, 
steep  mountain  roads,  which  prevent  ore  hauling  during  the  winter 
months,  and  many  other  difficulties  which  would  have  discouraged  a 
less  persevering  man.  His  efforts  have  succeeded  in  reviving  the  dis- 
trict, and  Alta  to-day  is  looked  upon  as  one  of  Utah's  big  camps. 
Mr.  Jacobson  is  general  manager  of  the  company.  The  officials  are: 
Chas.  A.  Walker,  president;  B.  F.  Chynoweth,  vice-president;  S.  A. 
Whitney,  secretary  and  treasurer.  Tony  Jacobson  and  Louis  A.  Jeffs 
complete  the  Board  of  Directors.  The  property  is  one  of  the  most 
thoroughly  equipped  in  the  State,  having  its  own  milling  plant  at 
the  tunnel  mouth  to  treat  the  ores  not  rich  enough  to  ship  without 
preliminary  treatment. 

161 


A.  O.  JACOBSON 


ALFORD  0.  JACOBSON 

Of  the  numerous  young  men  which  Salt  Lake  has  given  to  the  world, 
as  leaders  in  the  sphere  of  finance  and  business,  none  is  better  known 
than  Alford  0.  Jacobson.  Born  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1871,  he  has, 
perhaps,  of  all  others  engaged  in  the  mining  industry,  the  proud  right 
of  saying  that  he  knows  it  from  the  bottom  of  the  shaft  to  the  gallows 
frame,  with  all  its  allied  branches. 

Mr.  Jacobson  received  his  early  education  at  St.  Mark's,  but  at  the 
age  of  thirteen  began  working  in  the  mines  which  were  just  then  begin- 
ning to  attract  the  attention  of  the  world  at  large  to  Utah  and  its 
store  of  precious  metals. 

Beginning  his  career  at  this  early  age,  he  literally  worked  his  way 
through  all  the  gradations  of  the  industry,  acquiring  at  each  step  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  that  particular  phase  of  the  work,  until  he 
finally  became  qualified  through  the  hard  school  of  experience,  as  one 
of  the  best  informed  and  experienced  mining  men  of  the  country  at 
large. 

Men  with  properties  on  their  hands  which  needed  development  at 
the  hands  of  an  expert  were  not  slow  in  learning1  of  Mr.  Jacobson 's 
abilities,  and  many  a  despondent  stockholder  has  been  raised  from  the 
depths  of  despair  by  the  information  that  A.  0.  Jacobson  had  taken 
charge  of  the  property  in  which  he  was  interested. 

From  the  moment  that  he  entered  the  mines  as  a  boy,  Mr.  Jacobson 
has  never  deserted  the  field,  and,  while  improving  and  developing  the 
properties  of  others,  he  has  not  been  slow  to  acquire  interests  of  his  own 
in  properties  which  he  believes  have  a  future  in  store  for  them.  For 
twelve  years  he  has  been  identified  with  a  number  of  propositions  in 
the  Tintic  District,  while  at  the  same  time  he  has  been  the  superin- 
tendent of  the  Columbus  Consolidated,  at  Alta.  This  mine  now  has  a 
well-equipped  plant,  but  when  Mr.  Jacobson  took  charge,  it  fell  to  his 
lot  to  set  up  and  run  the  compressors  and  sharpen  his  own  drills.  This 
he  did  until  ore  was  reached,  and  this  unflagging  zeal  in  the  service  of 
others  is  perhaps  the  real  secret  of  his  success.  At  the  present  time 
he  is  not  only  superintendent  of  the  Columbus  Consolidated,  but  of  the 
Columbus  Extension,  and  is  a  director  of  the  South  Columbus. 

Mr.  Jacobson  has  served  as  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  the  Alta  Dis- 
trict with  energy  and  efficiency.  Although  not  college-bred,  he  is  an 
educated  man  of  marked  intelligence  and  well  abreast  of  the  times. 
A  man  of  honesty  and  integrity  of  purpose,  he  is  one  of  Utah's  most 
useful  citizens. 


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C.    H.    DOOLITTLE 


CHARLES  HORACE  DOOLITTLE 

Among  the  prominent  and  progressive  mining  engineers  who  have 
won  fame  and  distinction  for  themselves  in  the  inter-mountain  country 
and  elsewhere  is  Charles  H.  Doolittle,  who  is  the  able  manager  of  the 
Bingham-New  Haven  mining  interests  in  Utah.  Mr.  Doolittle  is 
descended  from  an  old  New  York  family,  and  was  born  at  Wappinger 
Falls,  New  York,  December  4,  1861. 

He  is  the  son  of  Dr.  Frank  W.  Doolittle  and  Mary  C.  Doolittle.  He 
received  his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  his  native  place,  and 
subsequently  attended  Columbia  University  of  New  York  City,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1885  with  the  degree  of  mining  engineer,  and 
that  profession  he  has  followed  ever  since. 

Mr.  Doolittle  is  an  expert  chemist,  assayer,  and  surveyor,  and  for 
the  past  quarter  of  a  century  has  been  permanently  connected  with  the 
mining  and  smelting  business,  and  has  operated  all  the  w'ay  from 
British  Columbia  to  Old  Mexico,  spending  several  years  in  the  latter 
country  following  his  profession.  During  that  period  he  has  developed 
and  surveyed  many  very  valuable  mining  properties.  He  was  for- 
merly one  of  the  superintendents  of  the  American  Smelting  and  Refin- 
ing Company,  and  is  thoroughly  qualified  in  the  practical  side  of  the  min- 
ing industry.  Mr.  Doolittle  has  been  a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City  since 
1903,  a*nd  has  represented  several  important  mining  companies  during 
that  period. 

Mr.  Doolittle  is  married,  and  is  the  father  of  two  children;  one 
deceased,  Frank  W.,  and  one  living,  Dorothy  C.  Doolittle.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Alta  Club  and  also  of  the  Country  Club  of  Salt  Lake.  Mr. 
Doolittle  is  a  man  who,  by  his  natural  versatility  and  his  extensive 
knowledge  of  mining,  is  especially  fitted  for  a  successful  operator  and 
promoter.  He  is  of  excellent  executive  ability  and  keen  perception,  and 
these  qualities  have  given  him  a  remarkable  reputation  in  mining1 
circles  throughout  the  inter-mountain  country.  He  resides  at  366  East 
South  Temple  Street,  Salt  Lake  City. 


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J.  T.  RICHARDS 


JOSEPH  T.  RICHARDS 

Joseph  T.  Richards  was  born  at  Ogden,  Utah,  December  8,  1871. 
His  parents  were  Franklin  S.  Richards,  the  prominent  lawyer,  and 
Emily  S.  Richards.  He  married  Mattie  Sells,  and  now  has  three  chil- 
dren, Martha,  Josephine  and  Edward. 

Mr.  Richards  was  educated  in  the  grade  schools,  at  the  University 
of  Deseret  and  at  Cornell  University.  After  graduating  in  June,  1892, 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  immediately  commenced  the  active 
practice  of  law,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Richards,  Moyle  &  Richards, 
which  continued  only  a  year  or  two,  and  the  firm  of  Richards  &  Richards 
was  formed,  of  which  Mr.  Joseph  T.  Richards  was  the  junior  member. 
In  1898  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Bennett,  Harkness,  Howat, 
Bradley  &  Richards,  and  in  1900  upon  the  dissolution  of  that  firm, 
became  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Richards  &  Ferry.  For  the 
last  seven  years  the  firm  has  been  Richards,  Richards  &  Ferry,  con- 
sisting of  Franklin  S.  Richards,  Joseph  T.  Richards  and  Edward  S. 
Ferry,  and  is  one  of  the  most  able  and  prominent  law  firms  in  the 
State. 

In  1893,  Mr.  Richards  was  appointed  Assistant  United  States  Attor- 
ney for  the  Territory  of  Utah,  under  Mr.  Cleveland's  second. adminis- 
tration, and  made  an  enviable  record  in  that  position.  He  has  devoted 
his  time  almost  exclusively  to  the  practice  of  his  profession,  in  which 
he  has  distinguished  himself.  His  practice  has  been  very  active  and 
varied.  Mr.  Richards  has  successfully  conducted  litigation  of  great 
importance,  involving  large  interests  and  many  difficult  questions. 

Though  his  energies  have  been  devoted  to  professional  matters 
almost  exclusively,  Mr.  Richards  has  become  associated  with  various 
industrial  enterprises,  and  has  devoted  considerable  attention  to  mining, 
so  that  he  is  not  only  widely  and  favorably  known  as  a  lawyer,  but 
has  a  reputation  as  a  business  man  of  judgment  and  integrity,  and  is 
prominent  in  both  spheres. 

Mr.  Richards  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club,  University  Club,  Com- 
mercial Club  and  Country  Club.  He  is  very  fond  of  outdoor  sports, 
and  his  hours  of  recreation  are  devoted  to  amusements  of  this  class. 


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WINDSOR   V.   EICE 


WINDSOR  V.  RICE 

Among  the  careers  of  the  really  big  men  of  the  West  none  stand  out  more 
brilliantly  than  that  of  Windsor  V.  Rice,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Born  in  the  little  town  of  Riceburg,  near  Montreal,  Canada,  in  1850,  young 
Rice  received  his  earlier  education  in  the  public  schools  of  that  village  and  of 
Montreal,  and  at  an  early  age  gave  promise  of  a  mechanical  genius  which  later 
was  to  place  him  in  the  foremost  ranks  of  his  profession,  that  of  mechanical 
engineer. 

His  father  was  Martin  Rice,  for  years  connected  with  various  iron  works  in 
Canada,  and  his  mother,  Permilla  Vincent  Rice.  In  1863  the  young  man 
removed  to  the  State  of  Michigan,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  he  began  his  active 
career.  He  spent  eight  years  in  Michigan,  where  he  continued  his  studies  and 
at  the  same  time  gained  the  practical  knowledge  which  enabled  him  to  assume 
his  duties  as  manager  of  the  Ottawa  Iron  Works  at  Grand  Haven.  In  1871 
he  returned  to  the  scenes  of  his  boyhood  days  in  Canada,  and  there  in  partner- 
ship with  a  brother,  under  the  style  of  Rice  Brothers,  he  engaged  in  the  foundry 
as  well  as  sawmill  and  gristmill  business.  These  enterprises  were  notably 
successful,  but  an  overpowering  ambition  for  wider  fields  possessed  him,  and 
soon  caused  him  to  seek  new  fields  of  action.  In  1897  he  came  West,  and  located 
in  Park  City,  Utah. 

At  that  time  the  Ontario  and  Daly  mines  were  the  only  producing  prop- 
erties in  the  camp,  and  having  a  thorough  practical  knowledge  of  mechanics  and 
machinery,  it  wras  not  strange  that  mining  should  attract  his  attention.  Mr. 
Rice  soon  worked  into  a  position  where  his  practical  knowledge  and  experience 
were  early  demonstrated,  and  in  an  incredibly  short  time  he  formed  a  connec- 
tion with  the  Anchor  Mining  Company,  subsequently  becoming  connected  writh 
the  Woodside,  the  Quincy,  the  famous  Silver  King  and  Steamboat  Mining 
Companies.  Later  he  assumed  the  management  of  the  Park  City  waterworks, 
and  at  one  time  was  the  principal  owner  of  the  electric  light  plant.  Through  the 
purchase  of  a  block  of  stock  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  that  city,  Mr. 
Rice  became  identified  officially  with  that  institution,  from  which  time  on  he 
continued  to  make  investments  in  Park  City,  all  being  very  successful. 

When  attention  was  called  several  years  ago  to  the  undeveloped  mineral 
resources  of  Nevada,  Mr.  Rice  was  among  the  first  to  enter  that  State  and  apply 
his  capital  to  the  mining  industry.  His  interests  have  expanded  until  in  Gold- 
field,  Rhyolite,  Fairview  and  Yerington  he  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  fortunate 
operators  of  that  rich  State.  Mr.  Rice  is  a  director  of  the  Silver  King  Coalition 
Mines  Company  of  Park  City,  one  of  the  greatest  dividend-paying  organizations 
of  the  country.  He  is  president  of  the  Nevada  Hills  Company,  another  divi- 
dend-paying mining  proposition,  and  he  is  treasurer  and  director  of  the  Nevada 
Douglas  Copper  Company,  one  of  the  largest  straight  copper-smelting  companies 
of  Nevada.  Colorado  and  Idaho  as  well  have  attracted  him,  and  even  in  far- 
off  British  Columbia  the  name  of  Windsor  V.  Rice  is  known  and  appreciated  as 
representing  one  of  the  really  big  men  of  the  mining  West. 

In  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  has  a  beautiful  residence  and  an  ideal  home 
life,  Mr.  Rice  has  been  one  of  the  most  faithful  pillars  of  numerous  charitable 
institutions,  his  unostentatious  support  of  educational  and  relief  associations 
for  the  uplifting  of  humanity  stamping  him  one  of  the  most  desirable  and  intel- 
ligent of  philanthropists. 

Possessed  of  a  large  circle  of  friends,  Mr.  Rice  is  no  less  prominent  in  social 
than  in  business  circles.  Well  informed  on  current  events  and  widely  traveled, 
he  is  a  delightful  companion,  easily  approached  and  one  from  whom  knowledge 
and  optimism  are  to  be  obtained.  Fortunate  in  the  possession  of  physical 
strength,  and  more  than  ever  convinced  of  the  greatness  of  the  West,  Mr.  Rice 
bids  fair  to  be  even  more  successful  and  a  power  for  a  good  many  years  to 
come. 

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WILLARD  F.   SNYDER 

Willard  F.  Snyder  is  a  native  son  of  Utah,  having  been  born  at 
Woods  Cross,  Davis  County,  about  ten  miles  north  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
September  22,  1863. 

His  father  was  George  G.  Snyder  who  was  born  in  Watertown, 
Jefferson  County,  New  York,  in  1819,  and  his  mother  Martha  Snyder. 
George  G.  Snyder 's  boyhood  was  spent  on  a  farm,  and  during  the  first 
few  years  of  his  manhood  he  was  engaged  in  the  potash  industry  in 
New  York  and  Canada.  In  1844  he  came  West,  settling  in  Jefferson 
County,  Missouri.  When  the  California  gold  excitement  stampeded 
the  country  in  1849,  the  father  of  our  subject  joined  the  overland  west- 
bound tide.  He  went  by  the  way  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  spent  the  winter 

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in  Salt  Lake  valley.  He  reached  Sacramento  in  the  fall  of  1850,  and 
soon  after  that  went  to  Diamond  Springs,  where  he  built  a  hotel  and 
conducted  it  successfully  for  four  years.  Having  amassed  considerable 
wealth  in  the  gold  fields  of  California,  he  set  out  to  return  to  the  East, 
but  on  the  way  stopped  again  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  had  previously 
joined  the  Mormon  Church,  and  having  many  friends  in  the  valley, 
concluded  to  remain  here.  He  engaged  in  business  in  Salt  Lake  and 
Davis  counties  for  several  years,  later  going  to  Cache  County,  where  he 
built  a  sawmill  and  operated  it  with  success.  In  1864  he  moved  to 
Summit  County,  where  he  engaged  in  ranching  and  the  stock  business, 
and  in  freighting,  livery,  merchandising  and  mining.  He  was  one  of 
the  earliest  settlers  in  Park  City,  and  laid  out  a  portion  of  the  town. 
He  served  as  probate  judge  of  Summit  County  for  six  years,  and 
remained  a  resident  of  Park  City  until  his  death,  in  1887.  His  wife 
died  in  March,  1891.  The  Snyder  family  came  originally  from  Ger- 
many. They  settled  first  in  Pennsylvania,  being  among  the  earliest  set- 
tlers of  that  State.  George  G.  Snyder 's  father  was  Isaac  Snyder,  and 
his  mother  Louisa  Comstock  Snyder.  The  Comstocks  were  of  English 
descent,  the  first  American  member  of  the  family  having  come  over  in 
the  "Mayflower." 

Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  in  Summit  County  and  his  education 
was  obtained  mainly  in  the  public  schools  of  Park  City.  Growing  up 
in  a  mining  atmosphere  such  as  that  pervading  so  prosperous  a  mining 
center  as  Park  City  has  always  been,  he  became  half -unconsciously  well 
versed  in  mining  matters,  and  consequently  well  fitted  in  early  man- 
hood to  engage  in  the  mining  business  intelligently  and  successfully. 
He  has  been  actively  engaged  in  this  work  for  twenty  years,  and  has 
achieved  an  enviable  position  in  the  Salt  Lake  and  Utah  mining  field. 
He  is  president  and  a  director  of  the  National  Development  Company, 
with  offices  on  the  fourth  floor  of  the  new  Judge  Building,  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  holds  similar  positions  in  the  official  family  of  the  Yerington 
Malachite  Copper  Company,  whose  mines  are  at  Yerington,  Nevada. 
He  is  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  famous  Cliff  Mining  Com- 
pany,  with  mines  at  Ophir,  Utah,  and  is  interested  as  a  stockholder 
and  officially  in  many  other  mining  concerns  in  the  inter-mountain 
country.  Mr.  Snyder  is  a  prominent  figure  in  the  large  and  growing 
group  of  energetic  and  successful  mining  men  who  have  been  and  are 
now  doing  so  much  to  make  Salt  Lake  the  mining  center  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Snyder  is  a  member  of  the  Salt  Lake  lodge  of  Elks,  the  Alta 
Club,  the  Commercial  Club,  and  the  Country  Club.  He  is  married  and 
is  the  father  of  six  children,  the  family  residing  in  a  commodious  and 
handsomely  appointed  new  and  modern  home  at  643  East  Second  South 
Street,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

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GEO.  W.  MORGAN 


GEORGE  W.  MORGAN 

One  of  the  men  who  have  risen  through  their  own  efforts  to  positions 
of  prominence  in  the  business  and  mining  world  of  the  West  is  George 
W.  Morgan,  proprietor  of  the  Vienna  Cafe,  one  of  the  best  known 
restaurants  between  Denver  and  the  Coast,  and  the  president  of  the 
Imlay  Mining  Company,  the  headquarters  of  which  are  in  Salt  Lake. 

Mr.  Morgan  was  born  in  St.  Lawrence  County,  New  York,  July  7, 
1863,  but,  while  still  a  boy,  his  parents  removed  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
where  the  young  man  received  his  earlier  education.  His  father  was 
Frederick  H.  Morgan,  a  well-known  manufacturer  and  carriage  builder 
of  Cincinnati,  and  for  a  time  the  young  man  was  connected  with  this 
line  of  business.  On  August  16,  1892,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Kate 
Fanning,  of  Butte,  Montana,  and  in  December,  1898,  he  removed  to 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  has  since  made  it  his  home. 

One  of  Mr.  Morgan's  earlier  business  ventures  in  Utah  was  the 
Vienna  Cafe,  at  that  time  a  little-known  eating  house,  on  Main  Street, 
Salt  Lake's  principal  business  thoroughfare.  By  sheer  force  of  per- 
sonality and  strict  attention  to  business,  Mr.  Morgan  succeeded  in 
building  up  a  large  and  profitable  business  before  he  began  to  turn  his 
attention  to  other  fields  of  industry.  The  mining  business  early 
attracted  him,  and,  in  addition  to  his  large  interest  in  the  Imlay  Mining 
Company,  he  is  also  vice-president  of  the  West  Quincy  Mining  Com- 
pany, with  properties  in  Park  City,  and  is  a  director  and  member  of 
the  Executive  Board  of  the  Clayton-Daynes  Music  Company,  a  director 
of  the  Capital  Electric  Supply  Company,  vice-president  of  the  Sunny- 
brook  Coal  Company,  and  vice-president  and  managing  director  of  the 
Reno  Wholesale  Grocer  Company. 

The  Vienna  Cafe  of  recent  years  has  become  the  headquarters  for 
mining  and  professional  men  of  the  inter-mountain  region,  and  here 
its  genial  proprietor  is  to  be  seen  at  his  best.  While  Mr.  Morgan's 
rise  in  a  business  way  has  been  rapid  and  substantial,  in  the  social 
life  of  the  city  he  is  almost  equally  well  known.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Alta  Club,  the  Elks,  and  the  Commercial  Club  of  Salt  Lake,  and  is 
a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  a  Knight  Templar  and  a  Shriner.  He 
occupies  a  handsome  residence  at  311  East  Fifth  South  Street,  where 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morgan  have  achieved  a  more  than  local  reputation  for 
lavish  entertainment  and  open-handed  hospitality. 

Notwithstanding  the  wide  and  varied  nature  of  his  interests,  Mr. 
Morgan  has  been  enabled  to  give  close  attention  to  the  affairs  of  each  of 
the  industries  with  which  he  is  connected.  Under  his  management  the 
Imlay  Mining  Company  has  made  rapid  strides  along  the  lines  of 
success  and  the  Reno  Wholesale  Grocer  Company,  through  its  conserva- 
tive management  and  up-to-date  methods,  has  succeeded  in  building 
up  a  splendid  volume  of  business.  The  Sunnybrook  Coal  Company  is 
regarded  as  one  of  the  promising  enterprises  of  the  State,  while  his 
other  interests  enjoy  an  equal  measure  of  prosperity.  In  the  eleven 
years  which  he  has  been  in  Salt  Lake,  Mr.  Morgan  has  made  a  host 
of  friends,  all  of  whom  are  enthusiastic  in  their  admiration  of  what 
he  has  so  far  accomplished. 

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L.    1ST.    MORRISON 

One  of  the  best  known  and  prominent  mining  men  of  Utah,  who  has 
won  prominence  through  his  wonderful  capabilities  and  efficiency,  is 
Lorin  N.  Morrison.  That  all  of  his  mining  interests  are  in  the  State 
of  Utah  shows  what  faith  he  has  in  the  future  of  this  wonderful  indus- 
try, in  this  State.  Mr.  Morrison's  career  has  been  one  of  activity,  and 
he,  like  many  others,  has  learned  the  lesson  that  the  secret  of  success 
lies  in  hard  and  consistent  plugging,  and  not  in  lying  down  when  beset 
with  adversities. 

Mr.  Morrison  was  born  on  the  3rd  of  June,  1855,  in  the  town  of 
Black  Brook,  Clinton  County,  New  York.  He  is  the  son  of  Bradley 
Morrison  and  Marv  Eamsdell  Morrison.  His  father  was  a  lumber  and 


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iron  contractor,  and  the  young  man,  when  yet  a  boy,  became  interested 
in  the  lumber  business.  It  was  the  experience  that  he  received  in  his 
extreme  youth  that  stood  him  in  hand  when  he  went  out  into  the  world 
to  earn  his  own  fortune.  He  was  educated,  or  received  his  early 
training,  in  the  schools  of  Dannemora,  Clinton  County,  and  Chateaugay, 
Franklin  County,  New  York.  School  not  appealing  to  the  boy,  at  the 
age  of  fourteen  he  left  home  and  went  to  Menominee  and  engaged  in 
the  lumber  business,  and  then  in  the  charcoal  business.  From  the  above 
place  he  went  to  Marquette  and  was  engaged  in  the  same  lines.  He 
worked  for  many  years  in  this  country  and  became  very  prominent 
and  respected  by  all  of  those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact. 

He  always  had  a  desire  for  the  West,  and  as  soon  as  he  deemed  it 
wise  he  started  for  this  country.  He  first  located  in  Hilliard,  "Wyoming, 
where,  in  company  with  his  brothers,  he  engag'ed  in  the  charcoal  trade. 
At  this  time  they  found  that  business  very  profitable  and  were  soon 
looked  upon  as  the  charcoal  men  of  that  country.  For  a  long  time  he 
with  his  brothers  supplied  the  Flagstaff  mines  and  smelters  with  over 
one  hundred  thousand  bushels  of  charcoal  a  month.  This  business 
proved  to  be  a  very  lucrative  one,  and  they  were  content  to  stay  there 
for  some  time.  Mr.  Morrison,  however,  having  had  a  desire  to  engage 
in  the  mining  industry,  came  to  Utah  on  leaving  Hilliard,  and,  arriving 
here,  became  engaged  in  the  industry  at  Frisco,  Utah.  He  was  very 
successful  from  the  outset,  and,  after  putting  a  great  deal  of  time  in 
the  promotion  of  this  property,  he  soon  began  to  interest  himself  in 
other  properties  throughout  the  State.  He  promoted,  in  conjunction 
with  others,  the  Comet,  Blackbird,  Yankee  Con,  Gold  Development, 
Indian  Queen,  Con  and  King  David  Mining  Companies.  All 'of  these 
companies  are  too  well  known  to  speak  of  them  here,  other  than  to  say 
that  Mr.  Morrison  has  been  uniformly  successful  in  all  of  these  ventures 
and  exemplified  the  f oresightedness  and  the  aggressiveness  for  which  he 
had  gained  such  a  reputation  in  whatever  country  he  had  been;  engaged 
in  business.  To-day  this  gentleman  is  looked  upon  in  the  State! of  Utah, 
where  all  of  the  mines  in  which  he  is  interested  are  located,  as  one  of 
the  best  men  in  the  game,  and  his  friends  say  that  he  is  deserving  of  all 
the  credit  that  is  given  him. 

His  domestic  life  is  a  most  happy  and  congenial  one.  He  was 
married  to  Miss  Kate  Kennedy  on  the  7th  of  April,  1881.  The  union 
has  been  blessed  by  two  children,  Lorin  E.  and  Laura  Morrison.  A 
man  of  domestic  tastes,  his  whole  life  is  wrapped  up  in  his  home,  and 
his  beautiful  residence  at  437  South  Fourth  East  is  frequently  the  scene 
of  delightful  house  parties.  He  is  not  identified  or  affiliated  with  any 
clubs  or  societies,  and  he  has  never  craved  political  prestige.  He  is 
an  indefatigable  worker,  and  when  his  work  is  done,  he  seeks  the 
quietude  of  his  own  fireside. 

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J.  A.  HEADLUND 


JOHN  ALFRED  HEADLUND 

Salt  Lake  City  at  the  present  time  is  one  of  the  busiest  cities  in  the 
United  States,  and  the  building  interests  are  contributing  more  to  the 
welfare  and  fame  of  that  magnificent  city  than  any  other  department 
of  progress. 

Active  in  all  movements  to  increase  the  general  prosperity,  they 
have  kept  pace  with  the  most  rapid  strides  in  their  own  line,  while  at 
the  same  time  participating  in  the  general  advancement  of  the  com- 
munity. 

John  A.  Headlund,  one  of  the  most  successful  architects  in  Utah,  was 
born  in  Engelholm,  Sweden,  May  30,  1863,  and  there  received  his  early 
education  in  the  public  and  high  schools.  He  came  to  this  country 
thirty  years  ago,  and  first  settled  in. Kansas  City,  Missouri,  securing 
employment  with  the  Hannibal  and  St.  Joseph  Railroad,  doing  general 
work  in  the  engineering  department.  He  next  went  to  Colorado  Springs, 
Colorado,  under  employ  of  Van  Brunt  &  Howe,  architects,  as  superin- 
tendent for  said  firm.  He  was  also  superintendent  of  the  late  W.  S. 
Stratton's  building  enterprises,  and  soon  won  distinction  for  himself 
and  for  his  work.  In  1889  Mr.  Headlund  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  for 
a  short  time  and  returned.  In  1891  he  went  into  the  profession  of 
architecture  exclusively,  and  has  ever  since  been  very  successful. 

He  surrounded  himself  with  a  competent  force  of  assistants,  and 
has  been  instrumental  in  erecting  many  of  the  most  important  busi- 
ness blocks,  private  dwellings,  and  imposing  structures  of  Salt  Lake 
City.  His  work  includes  the  McDonald  Candy  Company's  plant,  L.  &  A. 
Simon  Block,  First  Baptist  and  Third  Presbyterian  churches,  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  Building,  the  remodeling  of  the 
Scott  Building,  the  S.  B.  Milner  residence,  Dr.  E.  H.  Woodruff's  resi- 
dence, and  others,  and  most  of  the  large  school  buildings  throughout 
the  county,  Park  City  and  Heber  City,  and  also  a  school  in  Idaho.  Mr. 
Headlund  has  always  had  a  natural  inclination  for  geometrical  design- 
ing and  carving,  and  has  received  instructions  from  some  of  the  best 
masters  in  the  world.  He  began  when  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  and 
his  natural  aptitude  has  doubtless  been  the  cause  of  his  success.  Mr. 
Headlund  was  married  in  1891,  at  Colorado  Springs,  and  is  the  father 
of  three  boys,  Wallace,  Colin  Frazer,  and  Morris  Andrew. 

Mr.  Headlund  is  interested  in  numerous  mining  companies  in  Utah 
and  Nevada,  also  industrial  companies  in  the  East  and  West.  He  has 
never  held  any  political  office,  and  has  no  aspirations  in  this  con- 
nection. Mr.  Headlund  has  built  about  four  hundred  buildings  in 
Utah,  Idaho,  Nevada  and  Wyoming. 


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EOBEKT   FORRESTER 


ROBERT  FORRESTER 

Robert  Forrester,  one  of  the  most  eminent  and  progressive  geolo- 
gists and  mining  engineers  in  the  United  States,  and  one  whose  serv- 
ices are  constantly  in  demand,  owing  to  his  superior  knowledge  of 
minerals  and  rock  formation,  is  a  native  of  Balmalcolm,  Kings  Kettle, 
Fifeshire,  Scotland,  at  which  place  he  was  born,  November  22,  1864. 
He  inherits  from  his  father,  John  Forrester,  his  aptitude  in  geology 
and  mining,  and  from  childhood  he  made  it  a  study,  until  to-day  he 
has  perfected  himself  so  thoroughly  in  his  chosen  profession  that  he 
is  considered  an  absolute  authority  and  expert  in  geology,  mining 
engineering,  and  in  the  coal  industry,  of  which  he  has  made  a  special 
study.  Mr.  Forrester  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  West 
Calder,  and  later  took  the  course  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh,  from 
which  he  graduated  with  honors.  He  emigrated  to  this  country  in 
1887,  going  first  to  Clearfield  County,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  made  a 
thorough  study  of  the  coal  industry. 

In  1888  he  superintended  the  building  of  a  street  railway  in  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  and  while  there  had  charge  of  the  first  mining1  exhibit  ever 
held  in  that  city. 

He  came  to  Utah  in  December,  1889,  and  became  associated  with 
the  Pleasant  Valley  Coal  Company.  In  1892  he  was  appointed  United 
States  Inspector  of  Mines  for  Utah,  which  duties  required  much  careful 
investigation,  and  it  is  fair  to  -state  that  everything  recommended  by 
him  was  indorsed  and  promptly  carried  out. 

Mr.  Forrester  is  consulting  engineer  for  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Railroad,  by  whom  his  services  are  greatly  valued,  and  he  is  geologist 
for  the  Utah  Fuel  Company,  the  most  important  concern  in  the  coal 
industry  in  the  West. 

Mr.  Forrester  has  opened  the  Sunnyside,  Linierset,  Castle  Gate,  Clear 
Creek,  and  Winter  Quarters  coal  mines  of  the  Utah  Fuel  Company; 
the  Diamond  Coal  and  Coke  Company,  owned  by  the  Amalgamated 
Copper  Company;  the  Morrison  Mine,  for  the  Sterling  Coal  and  Coke 
Company;  Persions  Peak  Mine,  for  the  Calumet  Fuel  Company  of 
Colorado;  and  the  Home  Fuel  Company's  Mine,  at  Coalville.  Mr. 
Forrester  has  made  a  special  study  of  geology  and  the  economic  fea- 
tures of  engineering,  and  in  the  performance  of  his  professional  duties 
has  always  applied  good  business  tact  and  judgment  as  well  as  his 
scientific  knowledge  and  technical  skill.  Mr.  Forrester  enlisted  in  the 
Second  Volunteer  Cavalry  in  the  War  with  Spain,  in  1898,  and  was 
mustered  out  in  October,  as  a  sergeant.  He  is  a  member  of  the  F.  G. 
S.  E.,  N.  Geological  Society;  A.  A.  A.  S.  Col.  Sci.  Society;  A.  I.  M.  E. 
and  the  M.  M.  S.  A, ;  also  of  the  Alta  Club,  Commercial  Club,  and  Den- 
ver Athletic  Club.  He  was  married  September  11,  1890,  to  his  first 
wife,  and  to  his  present  wife  June  8,  1903. 

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F.   J.   HAGENBAKTH 


FRANCIS  J.  HAGENBARTH 

Francis  J.  Hagenbarth  is  of  Austrian  ancestry,  in  which  country  his  grandfather  on 
his  maternal  side  was  one  of  the  imperial  judges  of  the  city  of  Vienna  and  prominent  in 
the  professional  circles  there.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  also  prominently  identified 
in  business  and  was  a  successful  brewer,  and  this  industry  his  son,  father  of  Frank  J.,  took 
up  and  located  in  the  inter-mountain  country,  having  a  very  extensive  business  in  Denver, 
Virginia  City,  Salt  Lake  City,  and  throughout  the  inter-mountain  States.  He  settled  first  in 
Wisconsin  in  1859,  the  possibilities  of  which  State  were  at  that  time  attracting  the  attention 
of  men  who  had  the  courage  to  brave  the  hardships  and  privations  of  pioneer  life  and  the 
intelligence  to  foresee  the  promising  future  of  a  section  of  our  country  so  rich  in  natural 
advantages.  Having  received  a  military  training  in  his  native  land,  and  being  a  man  of 
patriotic  impulses,  Mr.  Hagenbarth,  shortly  after  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  was 
instrumental  in  raising  a  company  for  service  on  the  Union  side.  He  served  as  captain  of 
the  Ninth  Wisconsin  Regiment  of  Volunteers  during  the  period  of  hostilities,  and  won 
honorable  distinction.  He  died  at  Loon  Creek,  Idaho,  in  1870,  and  his  widow,  Catherine 
Hagenbarth,  subsequently  married  the  late  J.  D.  Wood,  who  was  an  Idaho  pioneer  widely 
known,  highly  .respected  and  successful  in  the  mining  and  live-stock  business  in  the  inter- 
mountain  region.  ' \ 

Francis  J.  Hagpnbarth  was  born  at  Leesburg,  Lemhi  County,  Idaho,  and  was  favored 
by  a  liberaj  edji€iStion  by  his  step- father  by  whom  he  was  much  beloved.  He  took  a  course 
in  mining  Knd  engineering  at  Notre  Dame  University  in  Indiana,  and  upon  his  graduating 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Salmon  River  Smelting  Company  of  Clayton,  Idaho,  as  mining 
engineer,  and  in  1897  he  accepted  a  similar  position  at  Custer,  Idaho. 

The  following  year.-  he  left  the  mining  profession  and  entered  the  live  stock  business  in 
Idaho  and 'Montana,  in;,  which  industry  he  rapidly  rose  to  a  leading  position,  becoming 
vice-president  and  general  manager  of  the  Wood  Live  Stock  Company.  In  1902  he  bought 
the  Palomas  Ranch  in  Chihuahua  and  Sonora,  Mexico,  in  association  with  J.  D.  and  H.  C. 
Wood  and  W.  S.  McCornick,  and  organized  the  Wood-Hagenbarth  Cattle  Company,  owning 
2,500,000  acres  of  land  and  about  37,000  head  of  cattle,  and  he  was  made  vice-president 
and  general  manager.  In  1903  Mr.  Hagenbarth  was  elected  president  of  the  National  Live 
Stock  Association  at  Portland,  Oregon,  succeeding  Hon.  John  W.  Springer,  of  Denver,  and 
he  was  subsequently  re-elected  in  1904  for  a  second  term.  Mr.  Hagenbarth  declined  the 
tendered  honor  of  a  re-election  to  that  important  office.  Mr.  Hagenbarth  took  an  active 
interest  in  protecting  the  wool  interests  of  Idaho  during  the  discussion  of  the  Wilson  Tariff 
Bill  in  1892-1893,  and  has  always  been  a  moving  spirit  in  all  the  activities  of  his  time, 
although  he  never  occupied  a  political  position  excepting  the  office  of  Labor  Commissioner  in 
Idaho  in  1903-4,  and  as  a  Presidential  elector  from  Idaho  in  1905. 

He  is  a  director  of  the  Daly-West  Mining  Company  of  Park  City,  president  of  the 
Yerington  Consolidated  Copper  Company,  vice-president  and  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Continental  Life  Insurance  and  Investment  Company,  and  president  of 
the  Western  Securities  Company,  of  Salt  Lake. 

The  Wood  Live  Stock  Company  is  the  largest  wool-growing  company  in  the  United 
States.  It  was  this  company  which  originated  the  shipment  of  lambs  in  large  quantities 
from  the  Western  ranges  to  the  Eastern  markets.  It  is  also  the  only  company  in  this 
country  which  grades  its  wool  on  the  range  on  the  Australian  plan,  so  that  the  product  goes 
directly  from  the  sheep's  back  into  the  woolen  mills.  The  Wood  Live  Stock  Company 
installed  the  first  plant  in  the  United  States  for  the  shearing  of  sheep  by  machinery  and 
many  innovations  in  the  handling  of  mutton  were  introduced  by  Mr.  Hagenbarth.  The 
annual  product  of  the  Wood  Live  Stock  Company  is  upwards  of  $500.000.  Mr.  Hagenbarth 
is  prominently  and  favorably  known  in  social  life,  as  he  is  in  the  business  world.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  University,  Alta,  Country  and  Commercial  Clubs  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  of 
the  Athletic  Association  of  Chicago,  Jonathan  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  Toltec  Club  of  El  Paso, 
Texas,  the  ¥.  M.  C.  A.  of  Salt  Lake,  and  the  Rocky  Mountain  Club  of  New  York. 

He  was  married  at  Melrose,  Montana,  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Browne,  daughter  of  General 
James  A.  Browne,  one  of"  Montana's  oldest  pioneers.  They  have  four  children,  Mary 
Catherine,  David,  Catherine  and  Francis  Hagenbarth. 

At  this  time  Mr.  Hagenbarth  is  president  and  manager  of  the  Wood  Live  Stock  Com- 
pany, president  of  the  Wood-Hagenbarth  Cattle  Company,  president  of  the  J.  D.  Wood 
Company,  and  vice-president  and  director  of  the .  Union  Stock  Yards,  Portland,  Oregon. 


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G.    W.    BAKTCH 


GEORGE   W.   BARTCH 

Typical  in  every  respect  of  the  success  that  comes  from  high  ability,  integrity  and  hard 
work  'is  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  The  Hon.  Geo.  W.  Bartch  is  a  native  of  Pennsylvania, 
born  of  sturdy  English-German  blood  that  figured  prominently  in  the  early  history  of  the 
Quaker  State.  His  father,  Rev.  John  G.  Bartch,  was  a  noted  Evangelical  clergyman  of  his 
time. 

Both  Judge  Bartch's  parents  died  while  he  was  yet  a  boy,  but  to  the  influence  the  life 
of  his  father  exercised  over  him  he  ascribes  the  foundation  upon  which  he  built  his  pro- 
nounced success.  After  the  death  of  his  father  his  boyhood  days  were  spent  with  an  elder 
brother,  on  a  farm  in  Sullivan  County,  Pennsylvania.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  began  life 
as  a  teacher  in  the  country  schools,  where  he  displayed  great  ability,  and  after  graduating 
and  receiving  the  academic  degree  of  Master  of  Science,  was  shortly  made  superintendent 
of  the  city  schools  of  Shenandoah,  Pa.,  a  position x which  he  retained  for  ten  years.  But 
his  natural  bent  was  toward  legal  work  and  during  the  time  that  he  was  winning  fame  as 
an  educator  he  was  in  his  spare  moments  gaining  a  knowledge  of  law,  with  the  result  that 
he  early  achieved  success  at  the  bar  of  Pennsylvania.  In  the  fall  of  1886  he  removed  to 
Canon  City,  Colorado,  where  he  maintained  the  high  reputation  previously  attained.  In 
1888  he  settled  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  there  he  gained  an  enviable  position  as  one  of  the 
leaders  among  the  brilliant  members  of  the  bar.  During  President  Harrison's  term,  Mr. 
Bartch  was  appointed  Probate  Judge  of  Salt  Lake  County. 

Under  the  same  administration  he  was  later  on  named  as  Associate  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Utah,  and  when  the  territory  became  a  State,  Judge  Bartch  won  a 
sweeping  victory  as  a  nominee  for  the  same  position  on  the  Republican  ticket.  During  the 
last  two  years  of  this  five-year  term  he  was  Chief  Justice,  and  in  1900  was  re-elected  a 
member  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  again  became  Chief  Justice  in  January,  1905,  holding 
the  office  until  Oct.  1,  1906,  when  he  voluntarily  tendered  his  resignation  for  the  purpose 
of  looking  after  his  large  personal  interests  and  resuming  the  practice  of  law. 

Judge  Bartch's  work  on  the  bench  has  made  him  famous  throughout  Utah.  No  one  ever 
questioned  his  fairness,  his  uprightness,  or  his  integrity,  and  his  decisions  have  been  almost 
universally  upheld  by  the  court  of  last  resort,  and  in  no  case  where  he  has  written  the 
original  opinion  on  the  subject  has  the  case  been  reversed  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States. 

His  decisions  on  the  Supreme  Court  bench  have  been  clear  and  comprehensive.  They 
are  especially  strong  in  the  application  of  equitable  principles  and  upon  questions  of 
irrigation  and  mining.  On  the  subject  of  irrigation  he  has  pointed  out  forcibly  and  logically 
the  modification  of  the  common  law  respecting  riparian  rights  in  the  arid  regions  of  this 
country  necessitated  by  the  peculiar  conditions  existing  in  those  regions,  and  his  opinion 
in  the  case  of  the  Grand  Central  Mining  Company  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  ablest  that 
has  yet  been  written  upon  the  subject  of  mining.  It  is  strong  alike  in  the  application  of 
legal  and  scientific  principles.  Respecting  that  decision,  the  "Mining  and  Scientific  Press" 
of  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  under  date  of  March  17,  1906,  speaking  editorially,  said:  "In 
deciding  the  case  of  the  Grand  Central  against  Mammoth  Mining  Company,  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Utah  has  given  us  a  valuable  treatise  on  the  law  of  mines.  Not  since  Justice 
Field  wrote  the  decision  in  the  Eureka-Richmond  case  have  we  had  anything  comparable 
to  it,  especially  in  clearness  of  statement,  in  fullness  and  breadth  of  treatment  and  in  the 
vigorous  way  each  issue  is  exhaustively  discussed  and  conclusively  decided."  And  in 
•Shamel's  "Mining,  Mineral  and  Geological  Law,"  the  author  says:  "The  most  important 
mining  decision  of  recent  years  is  that  in  the  Grand  Central-Mammoth  litigation,  delivered 
by  the  Supreme  Court  of  Utah,  Oct.  11,  1905.  The  chief  question  in  the  controversy  was 
the  definition  of  a  vein  with  reference  to  apex,  extralateral  rights,  etc.,  and  the  decision 
contains  one  of  the  best  discussions,  based  on  the  latest  investigations  and  theories  of  vein 
formation  and  ore  deposits,  that  has  ever  been  presented  on  this  feature  of  the  mining 
statutes  by  a  court." 

His  opinion  in  the  case  of  Weyeth  H.  &  M.  Co.  vs.  James-Spencer-B.  Co.,  delivered  Jan. 
12,  1897,  is  a  strong  exposition  of  the  powers  and  rights  of  private  corporations  as  to 
their  corporate  property;  and  likewise  his  opinions  in  the  cases  of  Herriman  Irrigation  Co. 
vs.  Keel,  decided  July  19,  1902,  and  Salt  Lake  City  vs.  Salt  Lake  City  W.  &  El.  P.  Co., 
decided  April  1,  1903,  ably  represent  the  law  respecting  the  appropriation  of  water  and 
riparian  rights  in  the  arid  region. 

He   resigned   as   Chief  Justice,   October    1,    1906. 

Since  resuming  the  practice  of  law,  Judge  Bartch  has,  within  a  short  time,  built  up  an 
extensive  and  lucrative  high-class  practice,  giving  special  attention  to  mining,  irrigation  and 
corporation  business. 


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J.   A.   CUNNINGHAM 

The  story  of  the  rise  of  Utah  from  a  desert  to  one  of  the  greatest 
wealth  centers  of  the  Union  naturally  involves  an  account  of  numerous 
important  citizens  who  have  assisted  in  this  evolution  process,  and  who 
have  benefited  themselves  generously  while  working  out  the  destiny  of 
the  region.  Such  a  person  is  James  A.  Cunningham,  one  of  the  best 
known  mining  and  business  men  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Cunningham  was  born  at  Quincy,  Illinois,  on  June  14,  1842. 
His  father  was  a  well-to-do  farmer,  his  mother  was  Lucinda  Eawlins, 
of  Bedford,  Indiana.  The  Cunningham  family  lived  in  Illinois  until 

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James  was  five  years  old,  then  they  removed  to  the  State  of  Iowa.  The 
elder  Cunningham  took  a  large  tract  of  farming  territory  located  about 
twenty  miles  above  Council  Bluffs,  where  the  family  lived  until  the 
spring  of  1848,  when  all  faced  the  West  on  a  long  and  tedious  wagon 
journey  to  Utah.  This  part  of  Mr.  Cunningham's  life  is  indelibly 
impressed  on  his  mind,  although  the  party  passed  across  the  plains  and 
mountains  without  untoward  incident.  Only  once  did  the  Indians 
interfere  with  progress,  and  a  liberal  distribution  among  them  of 
tobacco  and  foodstuffs  quickly  secured  safe  passage  through  their  lines. 

Mr.  Cunningham  during  his  first  few  years  in  the  new  territory 
followed  farming,  and  afterwards  became  a  freighter  in  and  out  of 
Montana.  Those  were  thrilling  days  for  the  young  man,  but  he  passed 
through  many  adventures  none  the  worse  for  his  experiences.  In  1874 
he  turned  his  attention  to  mining,  buying  a  prominent  interest  in  the 
Mammoth  Mine  in  the  Eureka  District  of  Utah.  He  served  as  presi- 
dent for  several  years,  and  was  vice-president  and  a  director  for  twelve 
years,  and  still  is  connected  with  this  famous  property.  Up  to  the  past 
ten  years,  he  had  much  to  do  with  the  active  management  of  the  organ- 
ization. To  date  the  Mammoth  company  has  paid  in  dividends  the 
sum  of  $2,220,000. 

Mr.  Cunningham  for  three  years  was  president  and  manager  of 
the  Bullion  Beck  Mining  Company,  another  liberal  dividend-payer  of 
the  State.  In  a  less  prominent  way,  Mr.  Cunningham  has  been  identi- 
fied with  numerous  successful  mining  companies  of  the  West,  and  for 
many  years  he  was  noted  as  one  of  the  big  sheep  men  of  the  Western 
plains.  At  one  'time  he  was  the  owner  of  32,000  head  of  sheep,  but 
when  wool  was  placed  on  the  free  list  he  began  gradually  to  free  himself 
from  what  was  proving  to  be  a  losing  venture.  Associated  with  his 
sons,  Mr.  Cunningham  is  the  owner  of  a  40,000-acre  sugar  plantation 
in  Mexico,  where  he  spends  half  of  his  time  each  year.  This  plantation 
is  one  of  the  most  valuable  in  that  republic. 

By  perseverance  and  hard  work  from  the  early  days,  Mr.  Cunning- 
ham has  accumulated  a  fortune,  and  is  one  of  the  wealthy  men  of  Utah, 
yet  one  of  the  most  unassuming  and  approachable  to  be  found  any- 
where. He  is  filled  with  the  conviction,  pounded  into  him  by  years 
of  roughing  it  on  desert  and  mountain,  of  man's  equality  as  far  as  he 
deserves  such  consideration.  He  has  a  wide  circle  of  friends  throughout 
the  West  and  South  who  have  learned  to  know  him  as  a  healthy- 
brained,  strong-willed  and  strong-muscled  gentleman  of  that  fast  dis- 
appearing type  known  as  the  old  school.  Mr.  Cunningham  owns  a 
beautiful  home  in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  with  his  family  he  is  happy 
and  content.  He 'has  five  daughters  and  two  sons  now  living. 

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F.   L.   WILSON 


FRANK  L.  WILSON 

The  Deep  Creek  section  of  the  State  of  Utah  is  destined  to  become 
one  of  the  most  important  in  the  entire  inter-mountain  country,  abound- 
ing, as  it  does,  in  mineral  wealth  and  fertile  lands.  It  has  a  greater 
variety  of  the  useful  metals  than  any  other  section  of  the  United  States, 
including  gold,  silver,  copper,  lead,  zinc  and  iron;  bismuth,  tin,  nickel, 
antimony,  tungsten  and  molybdenum.  This  part  of  Utah  is  being 
rapidly  developed  and  has  already  made  fortunes  for  a  large  number 
of  persons  who  had  an  early  knowledge  of  the  wonderful  mineral 
resources  of  that  section.  Among  the  fortunate  ones  who  have  done 
wonders  towards  the  development  of  the  natural  mineral  resources  of 
this  rich  country  are  the  Wilson  Brothers,  who  are  prominent  and 
favorably  known  mining  operators  and  developers  of  many  excellent 
mining  properties  in  the  Deep  Creek  District,  including  the  well  known 
Lucy  L.  Mining  and  Milling  Company,  which  is  probably  the  only 
mining  company  in  the  United  States  that  has  a  large  body  of  bismuth 
ore  of  commercial  value;  the  Clifton  Copper  Belt  Mining  Company, 
the  Seminole  Copper  Company,  the  Western  Pacific  Copper  Company, 
and  the  Wilson  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Frank  L.  Wilson  was  born  February  18,  1859,  at  London,  Nemaha 
County,  Nebraska.  His  father,  William  F.  Wilson,  was  a  general  con- 
tractor and  merchant,  and  was  a  native  of  Brighton,  Pennsylvania. 
His  mother,  Anna  M.  McKenzie  Wilson,  was  born  at  Vanport,  Beaver 
County,  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  Wilson  received  his  early  education  in  the 
common  schools  of  Nebraska,  and  later  at  the  University  of  Nebraska. 
After  leaving  the  University,  Mr.  Wilson  turned  his  attention  to  mining, 
and  in  November,  1889,  came  to  Salt  Lake  and  commenced  operations. 
He  has  been  uniformly  successful  ever  since,  his  principal  interests  at 
present  being  in  the  great  Deep  Creek  section,  where  he  has  acquired 
several  very  valuable  mining  properties. 

Mr.  Wilson  was  married  July  29,  1901,  to  Wilhelmina  Easmussen, 
who  was  a  native  of  and  educated  at  Ephraim,  Utah.  Four  children 
have  blessed  their  union,  namely:  Frank  L.,  Jr.,  Eobert  H.,  Helen  J., 
and  John  H.  Mr.  Wilson  is  a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Wilson  Brothers,  mining  operators,  with  offices  in  the 
Brooks  Arcade. 


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H.  P.  CLARK 


HARRY  P.  CLARK 

Prominent  in  banking  circles  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and,  in  fact,  in  the 
entire  inter-mountain  region,  is  Harry  P.  Clark,  president  of  the  Mer- 
chants' Bank  of  Salt  Lake  City.  Born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  on  Feb- 
ruary 9, 1859,  his  father  was  Asa  A.  Clark,  a  prominent  newspaper  man 
of  that  city,  and  his  mother  Elizabeth  Borton  Clark.  Mr.  Clark  received 
his  earlier  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and  when 
yet  a  young  man  he  came  West,  locating  in  Kansas,  and  later  settled 
in  San  Francisco,  where  he  became  connected  with  the  Bank  of  Wells, 
Fargo  &  Company. 

Seeing  the  possibilities  afforded  a  young  man  in  the  inter-mountain 
region,  Mr.  Clark  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  June,  1903,  as  an  officer 
of  the  Wells,  Fargo  &  Company  bank  at  this  place,  remaining  with 
them  until  they  retired  from  the  banking  business,  when  he  accepted  a 
position  of  prominence  and  trust  with  the  Commercial  National  Bank, 
now  the  Continental  National  Bank,  of  which  institution  he  was  cashier 
until  a  short  time  ago.  In  his  connection  of  cashier  of  the  Commercial 
National  he  made  a  host  of  friends  as  a  result  of  his  good  judgment  and 
conservative  methods. 

Under  his  efficient  management  the  patronage  of  the  bank  grew  to 
splendid  volume,  and  his  success  with  the  new  institution  will,  it  is 
expected,  be  just  as  markexi,  Possessing  to  a  marked  degree  all  the 
attributes  of  a  successful  business  man,  it  is  perhaps  not  to  be  wondered 
at  that  Mr.  Clark  should  have  accomplished  as  much  as  he  has.  Although 
he  has  devoted  practically  all  his  life  to  the  banking  industry},  he  ha&.-w- 
also  found  leisure  to  interest  himself  in  the  local  real-estate  situation. 
This,  too,  was  a  promising  field  to  Mr.  Clark,  and  since  coming  to  Salt 
Lake  he  has  become  treasurer  of  the  Fairmount  Springs  Realty  Com- 
pany, and  also  of  the  Salt  Lake  Realty  Company.  He  is  treasurer  of 
the  Green  River  Valley  Land  &  Water  Company,  which  controls  400,000 
acres  along  the  Green  River  and  comprises  one  of  the  largest  irrigation 
projects  within  the  State.  He  is  vice-president  of  the  Bingham  State 
Bank,  in  addition  to  being  connected  with  numerous  other  business  and 
financial  institutions  in  and  around  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Clark  is  also  quite  prominent  in  local  club  life,  being  a  member 
of  the  Alta  Club,  the  Commercial  Club,  and  the  Press  Club.  He  is  a 
Free  Mason,  a  member  of  the  Wasatch  Lodge,  and  a  member  of  the 
Utah  Chapter,  Utah  Commandery,  and  El  Kalah  Temple.  He  main- 
tains a  handsome  residence  at  303  South  Seventh  East  Street,  where  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Clark  frequently  entertain. 

Mr.  Clark  was  married  on  May  28,  1884,  his  family  consisting  of 
his  wife,  a  son,  Asa  Alan  Clark,  and  a  daughter,  Miss  Florence  Mar- 
garet Clark.  Personally,  Mr.  Clark  is  a  man  of  genial  personality, 
whole-souled  and  generous  to  his  friends.  His  success  in  life  up  to  this 
time  has  been  gained  through  a  strict  adherence  to  business  principles 
and  a  rigid  observance  of  the  ethics  of  commercial  life.  Possessed  of  a 
comfortable  fortune  earned  by  his  own  industry,  he  will  probably  con- 
tinue for  many  years  to  be  an  active  factor  in  his  chosen  walk  of  life. 
His  success  is  regarded  merely  as  a  logical  outcome  of  well-directed 
effort,  and  there  are  those  who  predict  for  him  an  even  brighter  future. 

189 


LE  GRAND    YOUNG 

Le  Grand  Young,  born  December  27,  1840,  in  Nauvoo,  111.,  was  the 
third  son  and  fourth  child  of  Joseph  Young  and  Adeline  Bicknell 
Young.  Joseph  Young  was  a  preacher  of  the  gospel.  He  arrived  in 
Utah  with  his  family  in  1850.  After  such  schooling  as  a  boy  could 
obtain  in  Utah  at  that  early  period,  Le  Grand  Young,  at  about  twenty- 
four  years  of  age,  commenced  the  study  of  law.  He  afterwards  became 
a  student  in  the  law  office  of  Hoge  &  Johnson  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Mr. 
Young  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1870  and  commenced  the  practice  of 
law.  He  afterwards  went  to  Ann  Arbor  Law  School  and  graduated  from 
there  in  1874. 

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In  1863  Le  Grand  Young  married  Grace  Hardie,  the  daughter  of 
John  Hardie,  a  ship  captain  of  Scotland,  who  died  in  that  land.  His 
widow,  Janet  Downey  Hardie,  came  to  Utah  with  her  family  in  1856, 
having  been  converted  to  Mormonism.  There  were  six  children  born 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Young,  two  sons  and  four  daughters. 

Joseph  Hardie  Young,  the  oldest  son,  is  having  a  successful  rail- 
road career,  and  is  now  with  the  Southern  Pacific.  Le  Grand  Young, 
Jr.,  is  a  young  man  who  is  also  engaged  in  the  railroad  business,  and 
is  now  with  the  Emigration  Canon  Railroad. 

Mr.  Young's  daughters  are  all  accomplished  women,  and  three  are 
married  as  follows :  Grace  Young  Kerr,  whose  husband  is  Kenneth 
C.  Kerr,  of  the  Salt  Lake  Route ;  Lucille  Young  Reid,  whose  husband  is 
Win.  Reid  and  is  with  the  American  Smelter  Company;  Jasmine 
Young  Freed,  whose  husband  is  the  well  known  Lester  D.  Freed,  in  the 
furniture  business  in  Salt  Lake  City.  The  remaining  daughter,  Afton, 
is  unmarried. 

Le  Grand  Young  has  always  been  a  Democrat  in  politics.  In  1895 
in  the  first  Democratic  Judiciary  Convention  under  statehood,  Mr. 
Young  was  nominated  as  one  of  the  judges  of  the  District  Court  of 
the  Third  Judicial  District  in  the  State,  while  he  was  absent  from 
home.  He  was  afterwards  elected  to  that  office.  He  took  his  seat  Jan- 
uary  1,  1896,  but  he  resigned  the  following  May,  for  the  reason  that  the 
salary  was  inadequate. 

Mr.  Young  has  always  had  a  good  law  practice.  He  is  now  the 
senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Young  &  Moyle.  He  is  also  president 
of  the  i  Emigration  Canon  Railroad  Company,  an  electrical  railroad 
making  connection  with  the  lines  of  the  Utah  Light  &  Railway  in  the 
eastern  part  of  the  city,  and  running  practically  to  the  head  of  Emi- 
gration Canon. 

Mrs.  Young,  after  living  with  her  husband  for  nearly  forty-five 
years,  died  in  March,  1908.  She  was  a  noble  woman,  a  woman  delightful 
to  know,  and  a  mother  and  wife  whose  equal  is  seldom  found.  The 
home  at  Eleventh  East  Street  and  Harvard  Avenue,  mostly  through 
her  influence,  was  always  a  bright  and  happy  one,  but  it  received  a  sad 
blow  when  without  warning,  and  having  been  in  her  usual  perfect  health, 
this  noble  wife  and  mother  was  stricken  with  paralysis  and  expired 
March  14,  1908.  Desolation  is  the  word  that  best  expresses  the  shadow 
cast  by  this  sad  event  over  this  family.  Not  one  of  them  had  the 
slightest  premonition  of  the  sudden  taking  away  of  wife  and  mother 
that  was  to  break  on  the  home,  and  when  every  member  of  the  family 
was  gathered  together  from  far  and  near  she  expired,  surrounded  by 
them  all. 

Le  Grand  Young  is  actively  engaged  with  his  law  practice,  but  he 
finds  time  to  give  some  attention  to  the  general  offices  of  the  railroad 
of  which  he  is  the  president. 

191 


H.  W.  WALKER 


HENRY  WALTER  ^MKER 


Prominent  among  Salt  Lakers  in  a  business  and  social  sense  is 
Henry  Walter  Walker.  'Mr.  Walker  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1868.  He  is  the  son  of  David  F.  Walker,  who  was  a  pioneer 
of  Utah  and  one  of  the  foremost  citizens,  of  the  State,  and  Emeline 
Holmes,  who  died  when  Mr.  Walker  was  nine  years  old. 

The  young  man  obtained  his  early  education  in  the  public  and 
private  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  later  attended  school  in  Prince- 
ton, N.  J.,  and  Berkeley,  Cal.,  and  at  an  early  age  gave  evidence  of  a 
promising  career.  After  completing  his  education  he  returned  to  Salt 
Lake  to  take  up  the  duties  which  were  rightfully  his.  In  June,  1890, 
he  was  married  to  Grace  L.  Putman,  and  a  family  of  six  children  have 
since  arrived  to  bless  the  union.  The  children  are:  Erminie,  Ralph 
Putman,  Ethlene,  Natalie,  Vern  Randolph,  and  Carlton  Holmes. 

Mr.  Walker  has  numerous  local  business  interests,  and  in  addition 
has  various  investments  throughout  the  entire  State.  He  is  one  of  the 
principal  owners  of  the  Keith-O'Brien  Company,  Salt  Lake's  leading 
department  store.  For  some  time  past  he  has  been  manager  of  this 
institution,  and  through  his  ability,  integrity  and  painstaking  attention 
he  has  succeeded  in  building  one  of  the  foremost  business  establishments 
of  its  kind  in  the  West.  Along  other  business  lines,  Mr.  Walker  has 
been  equally  successful.  At  various  times  he  has  interested  himself  in 
different  mining  companies  with  excellent  success,  and  has  at  all  times 
occupied  the  foremost  place  in  the  public  welfare  of  the  commonwealth. 

A  prominent  clubman,  Mr.  Walker's  name  appears  on  the  member- 
ship rolls  of  two  of  Salt  Lake's  best  known  institutions,  namely,  the 
Alta  Club  and  the  Commercial  Club,  and  he  is  prominently  identified 
with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  He  is  also  a  Mason,  and  in  other  respects  has 
identified  himself  with  the  public  life  of  the  city.  He  occupies  a  hand- 
some home  at  1265  East  First  South  Street,  where  in  the  bosom  of 
his  family,  Mr.  Walker  is  to  be  seen  at  his  best.  Tactful,  well-informed, 
with  a  graceful  and  pleasing  personality,  Mr.  Walker  is  possessed  of 
a  host  of  friends,  all  of  whom  are  fully  alive  to  his  many  good  qualities. 

Ever  ready  to  extend  the  helping  hand  of  friendship  to  a  comrade 
in  distress,  Mr.  Walker,  during  his  business  career  in  Salt  Lake,  has 
built  up  a  reputation  for  justice,  integrity  and  unselfishness  which  is 
regarded  by  many  as  one  of  his  principal  assets.  In  the  years  which 
have  followed  his  return  from  college  and  his  entry  into  business  life, 
good  fortune  has  ever  been  at  his  elbow,  but  in  all  that  he  has  accom- 
plished hard  work  and  close  application  are  responsible  entirely  for  his 
success. 

At  the  present  time  Mr.  Walker  occupies  an  enviable  position  in  the 
ranks  of  the  men  who  do  things  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  those  whose 
privilege  it  has  been  to  know  and  appreciate  the  depths  of  his  per- 
sonality do  not  hesitate  to  predict  for  him  a  future  of  even  greater 
achievement. 


193 


JOS.    E.    CAINE. 

The  Western  type,  with  the  buoyant  air  and  hustling,  though  self- 
contained  manner,  cannot  be  more  thoroughly  exemplified  than  in  the 
person  of  Joseph  E.  Caine,  of  Salt  Lake  City.  Born  and  raised  in  the 
City  of  Zion,  he  has  seen  the  town  in  which  he  first  saw  the  light  of 
day,  advance  with  wondrous  strides,  and  more  than  that  he  has  been 
instrumental  in  making  it  what  it  is  to-day. 

Mr.  Caine  was  born  April  16,  1864,  he  being  the  son  of  Hon.  John 
T.  Caine  and  Margaret  Nightingale  Caine.  His  father  was  one  of 
the  pioneers  of  this  country  and  was  at  one  time  delegate  to  Congress. 
Mr.  Game's  education  was  varied  and  complete.  He  attended  first  the 
University  of  Utah,  and  while  there  acquitted  himself  very  creditably, 
his  scholarship  being  of  a  very  high  standard.  After  completing  his 
course  of  instruction  here  he  attended  the  Maryland  Agricultural  Col- 

194 


lege,  after  which  he  was  a  student  at  the  United  States  Military  Acad- 
emy at  West  Point,  New  York. 

Coming  West  to  his  home,  Mr.  Caine  immediately  upon  his  arrival 
took  up  newspaper  work  and  spent  some  time  on  the  "Tribune," 
"Democrat"  and  "Herald."  That  he  was  a  success  in  that  profession 
is  attested  by  all  who  know  him  and  were  in  the  city  during  this  period 
in  his  life.  When  the  sound  of  drums  and  martial  music  was  heard,  in 
1898,  and  the  call  for  volunteers  resounded  on  every  side,  the  love  for 
his  country  and  patriotic  fire,  burning  deep  into  his  soul,  could  not 
be  quieted,  and,  leaving  his  chosen  profession,  he  went  to  the  front. 
He  served  as  captain  of  the  First  Troop  Utah  United  States  Volunteer 
Cavalry.  This  troop  played  a  prominent  part  in  the  war,  and  many 
times  it  has  been  said  officially  that  the  troop  of  which  Mr.  Caine  was 
the  captain  was  the  finest  troop  of  one  hundred  men  in  the  United 
States  Army. 

After  the  war  was  over,  Mr.  Caine  decided  that  he  would  branch 
out  a  little  and  not  go  into  the  newspaper  game  again.  He  became 
identified  with  several  mining  properties,  and  he  has  been  uniformly 
successful  in  all  his  mining  operations.  His  knowledge  of  this  industry 
he  gained  through  his  varied  experience  through  this  country  and  he  is 
recognized  to-day  by  the  mining  men  in  the  inter-mountain  country  as 
being  keen  and  far-sighted,  but  always  honest  and  manly  in  his  dealings. 

Mr.  Caine 's  domestic  life  is  a  very  happy  one.  He  was  married 
November  26,  1888,  to  Miss  Annie  Hooper,  daughter  of  Captain  Wil- 
liam H.  Hooper,  former  delegate  to  Congress.  The  union  has  been  a 
most  happy  one  and  has  been  blessed  with  four  children:  William 
Hooper,  Joseph  Nightingale,  Robert  Warrack  and  Hooper  Caine.  The 
home  life  is  ideal  and  the  beautiful  residence  at  67  B  Street  is  frequently 
the  scene  of  parties  and  entertainments  where  the  many  friends  gather 
in  a  social  way. 

Mr.  Caine  at  the  present  time  is  vice-president  and  manager  of  the 
Yerington  Copper  Company,  and  also  of  the  Wheeler  Gold  Mines  Com- 
pany. He  is  also  manager  of  the  Caine  &  Hooper  Company,  which  is 
well  known  in  this  city.  Although  his  many  interests  keep  him  very 
busy,  he  has  time  to  boost  and  work  for  the  city  in  which  he  was  born. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Governors  of  the  Commercial  Club, 
and  is  now  serving  his  second  term.  Ever  since  that  organization  was 
founded  he  has  been  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  it,  and  that  to-day 
it  is  one  of  the  greatest  commercial  organizations  is  a  lasting  tribute 
to  Mr.  Caine  and  those  who  worked  so  hard  with  him  for  its  success.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and  the  Press  Club,  and  is  an 
active  worker  in  both  of  these. 

Politically  Mr.  Caine  has  not  gained  much  prominence  because  he 
never  had  much  leaning  that  way.  He  was,  however,  at  one  time  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Public  Works,  and  while  in  that  office  he 
worked  unceasingly  and  untiringly  for  improvements.  Still  a  young 
man,  Mr.  Caine  has  been  very  successful,  and  through  his  manliness 
and  integrity  has  earned  an  enviable  reputation  among  his  fellowmen. 

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JOHN  C.  SHARP 


JOHN  C.  SHARP 

John  C.  Sharp,  son  of  Joseph  Sharp,  youngest  brother  of  the  late 
Bishop  John  Sharp,  and  Jeannette  Sharp,  was  born  on  the  Kaw  River, 
Kansas,  May  28,  1850,  and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  in  the  arms  of  his 
mother  August  28th  of  the  same  year.  Joseph  Sharp,  the  father,  was 
a  well-known  freighter  across  the  plains  and  the  owner  of  a  large 
amount  of  live  stock.  John  C.  Sharp  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  on  February  12,  1872,  was  married  to  Bethula 
Palmer.  Two  sons  were  born  of  this  union,  Joseph  Palmer  Sharp  and 
James  Palmer  Sharp. 

Joseph  Sharp  seems  to  have  begun  to  grow  rich  as  soon  as  he  landed 
in  New  Orleans  with  his  elder  brothers,  John  and  Adam,  for  he  is 
found  to  have  been  the  owner  of  a  freighting  train  with  many  teams 
before  he  started  to  cross  the  plains.  After  his  arrival  in  Utah  the 
Sharp  brothers  were  given  the  contract  by  Brigham  Young  for  all  the 
stone  for  the  Tabernacle,  the  Tithing  House  and  the  old  Council  House, 
where  the  Deseret  News  Building  now  stands.  All  this  time  he  had 
many  teams  at  work  on  various  public  and  other  enterprises  and  had 
gone  steadily  forward  increasing  his  live-stock  interests.  In  addition 
to  being  the  father  of  John  C.  Sharp,  he  was  the  father  of  Joseph  C. 
Sharp,  the  present  sheriff  of  Salt  Lake  County.  Joseph  Sharp  died 
in  1864. 

The  year  he  was  married  John  C.  Sharp  moved  to  Vernon,  in 
Tooele  County,  where  an  ecclestiastical  ward  had  been  organized,  and 
he  was  ordained  as  bishop,  and  he  held  the  place  twenty-five  years,  the 
ward  growing  in  numbers  and  wealth  continuously.  At  Vernon  John 
C.  Sharp  rapidly  became  a  well-to-do  man.  He  had  acquired  lands  and 
cultivated  them  successfully;  he  had  flocks  of  sheep  and  herds  of  cattle 
and  they  thrived  and  multiplied  and  brought  him  constantly  increasing 
returns.  Meantime,  in  the  capital  city  of  the  State,  he  was  acquiring 
heavy  holdings  in  the  Deseret  National  Bank,  Z.  C.  M.  I.,  State  Bank  of 
Utah,  First  National  Bank  of  Ogden,  Commercial  Bank  of  Provo,  Utah 
and  Idaho  Sugar  Company,  Alaska  Ice  and  Storage  Company,  Inter- 
Mountain  Sand,  Brick  &  Cement  Company,  and  other  enterprises.  He 
has  served  for  years  as  president  of  the  State  Board  of  Sheep  Com- 
missioners. In  1897  he  transferred  a  large  portion  of  the  extensive 
sheep  business  he  had  been  doing  in  Utah  to  Idaho,  and  there  continued 
it  with  success  until  1906,  when  he  sold  most  of  it.  He  still  retains  a 
controlling  interest  in  a  ranch  in  Idaho,  which  he  uses  for  breeding  cat- 
tle and  thoroughbred  horses,  horse-breeding  having  been  his  specialty. 
The  uniform  success  of  these  extensive  operations  has  placed  Mr.  Sharp 
in  affluent  circumstances. 

John  C.  Sharp  is  president  of  the  Inter-Mountain  Sand,  Brick  & 
Cement  Company  and  of  the  Alaska  Ice  &  Storage  Company,  and  his 
elder  son,  J.  Palmer  Sharp,  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  both  com- 
panies. The  younger  son,  James  Palmer  Sharp,  is  manager  of  his 
father's  ranch  at  Bruneau,  Idaho,  where  he  still  has  cattle  and  horses 
and  a  large  ranch  with  ample  water  rights.  The  residence  of  John  C. 
Sharp  is  at  26  E  Street,  Salt  Lake  City. 

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C.    A.   QUIGLEY 


CHARLES  ANDREW  QUIGLEY 

Charles  Andrew  Quigley  was  born  June  6,  1862,  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  son  of 
John  P.  and  Margaret  A.  Quigley,  the  elder  Quigley  being  a  physician  and 
surgeon.  Charles  A.  Quigley  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Dubuque,  Iowa, 
and  came  to  Utah  in  1893  to  assume  charge  of  the  business  in  Utah  and  Idaho 
of  the  Studebaker  Bros.  Company,  now  the  Studebaker  Bros.  Company  of  Utah. 
On  March  2,  1898,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Effie  Elinore  Gee,  and  they  have  two 
children,  Charles  G.,  aged  ten,  and  Frederick,  aged  six. 

Mr.  Quigley  has  been  a  popular  man  since  he  came  West,  and  this,  com- 
bined with  his  sterling  business  qualities,  accounts  for  the  large  measure  of 
success  he  has  achieved  for  himself  as  well  as  for  the  interests  he  represents. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club,  the  Elks  Club,  the  Salt  Lake  Commercial 
Club,  the  Country  Club,  the  Salt  Lake  Press  Club,  and  the  Commercial  Club 
of  Boise.  His  home  is  at  204  East  Third  South  Street,  Salt  Lake  City. 

One  of  the  great  characteristics  as  a  citizen  is  his  civic  usefulness.  Every 
public  question  that  comes  up  receives  his  attention,  and  his  opinion  on  any 
subject  is  valued.  His  participation  in  politics  is  limited  to  voting,  and  he  has 
never  sought  or  held  political  office.  The  company  whose  business  he  manages 
with  distinguished  ability  is  one  of  the  heaviest  patrons  of  the  railroads  in  the 
State,  both  transcontinental  and  local,  and  his  house,  like  other  commercial 
institutions  in  the  State,  has  gone  into  the  fight  for  better  freight  rates  for 
the  inter-mountain  country  in  earnest.  Mr.  Quigley  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Commercial  Club  from  its  organization  seven  years  ago,  and  was  instrumental 
and,  in  fact,  the  leading  force  in  organizing  the  traffic  bureau  of  the  club,  and 
m  securing  the  services  as  traffic  director  of  S.  H.  Babcock,  for  many  years 
traffic  manager  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  system.  Mr.  Quigley  was 
chosen  unanimously  as  president  of  the  traffic  bureau,  and  his  work  is  now 
beginning  to  bear  fruit,  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  having  taken 
official  notice  of  the  complaint  of  unfair  treatment  of  Utah  shippers  by  the 
railroads,  and  ordered  an  investigation. 

As  an  evidence  of  Mr.  Quigley 's  activity  in  the  expansion  of  the  business  of 
the  Studebaker  Bros.  Company  of  Utah  since  his  arrival  here  and  his  assump- 
tion of  its  management  in  1893,  the  following  list  of  branch  houses  he  has 
established  in  that  time  is  cited:  Utah- American  Fork,  Spanish  Fork,  St. 
George,  Vernal,  Bountiful,  Brigham  City,  Coalville,  Heber  City,  Junction  City, 
Logan,  Mt.  Pleasant,  Morgan,  Murray,  Nephi,  Fillmore,  Ogden,  Payson,  Park 
City,  Provo,  Price,  Richfield,  Idaho-American  Falls,  Blackfoot,  Idaho  Falls, 
Mackay,  Pocatello,  Rexburg. 

In  the  headquarters  at  Salt  Lake  and  in  the  larger  branches  the  stocks  car- 
ried are  enormous  and  include  all  classes  of  farm  machinery,  automobiles, 
farm  wagons,  electric  trucks  of  all  capacities,  electric  runabouts  and  phaetons, 
gasoline  touring  cars,  harness,  and  all  kinds  of  light  and  heavy  vehicles,  for 
speeding  or  hauling,  including  drays  and  furniture  vans,  and  a  great  variety 
of  smaller  articles. 


199 


H.   P.   TAYLOE 


HARRY  P.  TAYLOR 

A  striking  example  of  what  a  determined  and  energetic  young  man 
can  accomplish  in  a  short  time  is  exemplified  in  the  wonderfully  suc- 
cessful career  of  Harry  P.  Taylor  of  Salt  Lake  City,  who  recently 
cleaned  up  a  neat  fortune  out  of  the  Engineers'  lease  on  the  Florence- 
Goldfield  Company's  property  at  Goldfield,  Nevada.  Mr.  Taylor  gave 
his  entire  attention  and  ability  to  the  development  work  and  production 
of  the  ore  from  this  lease,  with  the  result,  as  every  one  in  the  mining 
world  knows,  of  great  success  and  fortune  for  himself  and  associates. 

Harry  P.  Taylor  was  born  February  10,  1876,  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah.  He  is,  therefore,  one  of  the  younger  generation  of  "pioneers." 
He  is  the  son  of  Gilbert  H.  Taylor  and  Eliza  Jane  Taylor,  both  of  whom 
were  natives  of  New  York  State.  Mr.  Taylor  educated  himself,  attend- 
ing Oberlin,  Cornell,  and  the  Colorado  School  of  Mines.  From  the 
latter  he  graduated  with  the  degree  of  "Engineer  of  Mines"  in  1900, 
and  at  once  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  profession. 

His  first  work  was  as  superintendent  of  properties  of  a  mining  com- 
pany in  Oregon,  where  he  remained  one  year ;  next  he  managed  proper- 
ties in  Northern  Nevada,  Idaho  and  Montana  for  a  period  of  four  years, 
in  the  meantime  gaining  practical  experience  that  was  useful  to  him 
later  on.  Mr.  Taylor  is  now  actively  connected  with  the  Sevier  River 
Land  and  Water  Company,  whose  lands  are  located  in  Juab  and  Millard 
counties,  Utah.  It  is  conservatively  estimated  that  this  company  is 
watering  100,000  acres  of  land  in  this  State. 

Harry  P.  Taylor  was  married  to  Lois  M.  Nesmith  of  Warren,  Pa., 
and  they  are  the  parents  of  three  children,  namely,  Georgia,  Jack  and 
Jerry  Taylor.  Mr.  Taylor  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  is  now  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles,  California. 

The  offices  of  the  Sevier  River  Land  and  Water  Company  are  in  the 
Newhouse  Building,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


201 


ALEX.    H.    TARBET 


ALEXANDER    H.   TARBET 

Alexander  H.  Tarbet,  one  of  Utah's  most  prominent  mining  operators,  was  born  July 
21,  1861,  at  Iowa  City,  Iowa.  He  is  a  son  of  Alexander  and  Delia  Tarbet,  who  were  of 
Scotch-Irish  descent.  Mr.  Tarbet  received  his  education  in  the  common  schools  of  Iowa  and 
Salt  Lake  Collegiate  Institute,  and  at  the  Colorado  State  School  of  Mines  at  Golden.  He 
came  to  Utah  in  1875,  and  for  three  years  following  he  divided  his  time  between  his  father's 
mines,  The  South  Star  and  Titus  at  Alta,  and  Salt  Lake  City.  It  will  be  remembered  that 
over  this  mine  was  waged  the  famous  case  of  Tarbet  vs.  Flagstaff,  which  was  carried  for 
final  decision  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  which  established  the  principle 
that  under  conditions  the  "end  lines"  become  the  "side  lines."  The  balance  of  the  time  he 
attended  the  Salt  Lake  Collegiate  Institute.  While  at  the  mine,  young  Tarbet,  being  of 
a  receptive  age,  was  almost  constantly  in  the  mine  with  the  miners  and  helping  the 
blacksmiths  and  timbermen  on  the  outside,  and  what  interested  him  most  were  the  operations 
of  timbering  up  and  protecting  bad  and  caving  ground,  which  knowledge  acquired  was  the 
real  basis  of  his  after  success,  and  when  serious  caving  occurred  in  the  Colusa  Mine  (then 
the  property  of  the  Montana  Copper  Company,  but  now  the  chief  asset  of  the  Boston 
and  Montana),  the  superintendent  acknowledging  his  inability  to  stop  same,  C.  T.  Meader, 
the  general  manager,  put  Mr.  Tarbet  in  charge  of  the  work  of  stopping  the  caving,  the  con- 
tinuance of  which  would  mean  the  destruction  of  the  shaft  as  well  as  the  falling  in  of  the 
hoisting  plant.  Tarbet  succeeded  after  continuous  work  for  thirty-six  hours  by  filling  in 
and  false  setting,  in  safely  securing  the  ground.  Mr.  Meader  then  put  Tarbet  in  control 
of  all  mining  operations.  Mr.  Tarbet  is  associated  with  many  important  mining  companies 
in  Utah  and  Idaho  and  has  been  a  great  power  in  the  development  of  Utah's  mineral 
resources.  He  is  connected  with  the  Idaho  Consolidated  Power  Company,  of  which  he  is  a 
large  stockholder;  this  company  lights  Pocatello  and  other  cities  and  towns  of  Idaho.  He 
owns  a  controlling  interest  in  the  Pittsburg  Consolidated  Mining  Company,  and  is  interested 
in  other  important  mines  in  Utah  and  Idaho.  When  Mr.  Tarbet  was  but  twenty  years  of 
age  he  became  superintendent  of  the  Bell  Mine  of  Butte,  Montana,  which  was  then  and  is 
to-day  one  of  the  biggest  properties  in  the  Butte  District.  There  he  remained,  for  •  two 
years,  when  he  becaime  superintendent  of  the  Parrott  Mines,  where  he  remained  for  the 
following  year;  in  the  meantime  he  developed  the  famous  "Wake  up,  Jim"  Mine,  a 
property  worth  a  million  dollars;  but  at  this  critical  period  the  Bell  Mine  failed,  and  as 
Mr.  Tarbet  had  a  large  amount  of  stock  in  it,  he  lost  all  he  had,  and,  being  inexperienced 
in  handling  large  finances,  and  not  wishing  to  let  any  one  know  of  his  great  find  in  the 
"Wake  up,  Jim"  Mine,  he  sacrificed  his  interests,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  found 
himself  $14,800  in  debt,  instead  of  being  a  millionaire,  as  he  thought  he  was.  Nothing 
daunted,  however,  Mr.  Tarbet  began  work  all  over  again  and  took  contracts  for  hauling  ore, 
and  inside  of  two  years  he  had  paid  off  all  of  his  indebtedness  and  had  also  built  the 
Summit  Valley  Railway,  used  principally  for  the  purpose  of  hauling  ores  from  the  Parrott 
and  Virginia  mines  to  the  Parrott  Smelter.  Mr.  Tarbet  was  the  principal  .owner  of  this 
railway,  and  from  its  inception  it  was  successful.  He  afterwards  determined  to  widen 
his  knowledge  of  minerals,  and  entered  the  State  School  of  Mines  at  Golden,  Colorado, 
where  he  took  a  special  course  in  metallurgy,  chemistry,  geology  and  surveying:  In  1885 
Mr.  Tarbet  joined  with  A.  J.  Shoemaker  in  the  conduct  of  a  smelter  at  Argenta,  Montana, 
and  in  1886  he  went  to  the  Coeur  d'Alene  country,  and  within  sixty  days  procured  an 
option  on  the  Sunset  Mine,  and  later  sold  his  interests  to  Senator  Clark  and  brothers.  In 
May,  1887,  he  successfully  managed  the  Tiger  Mine  and  other  great  mining  properties  in 
the  district,  cleaning  up  a  neat  fortune.  He  then  went  into  real  estate  as  a  speculation, 
in  which  he  also  profited  greatly.  In  1890  he  became  interested  in  the  Le  Roi  Mine  at 
Rossland,  B.  C.,  and  early  in  1891  he  and  Oliver  Durant  secured  the  Centre  Star  and 
Idaho  mining  claims  in  the  same  camp,  adjoining  the  Le  Roi.  The  former  was  sold  in 
1898  for  $2,000,000  cash,  $1,600,000  of  which  went  to  Durant  and  "Mr.  Tarbet  as  their 
share.  The  Idaho  was  retained  until  1906,  at  which  time  it  was  sold  for  $400,000,  the 
owners  having  refused  at  one  time  an  offer  of  $1,000,000  for  the  same  property.  Mr. 
Tarbet  put  some  $300,000  into  the  Salt  Lake  City  Water  Power  and  Electrical  Company, 
which,  after  many  vicissitudes,  was  sold  to  the  Telluride  Power  Company.  Mr.  Tarbet 
constructed  the  tunnel  for  power  under  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad,  on  the  west  side 
of  Snake  River,  at  American  Falls,  Idaho,  which  is  430  feet  long  by  13  feet  in  diameter, 
now  the  property  of  the  Idaho  Consolidated  Power  Co.  Mr.  Tarbet  expects  the'  Humming 
Bird  and  Pittsburg  properties  to  develop  into  great  producers  in  the  near  future. 

In  1889  Mr.  Tarbet  married  Emma  Easton  of  Fall  River,  Mass.,  and  he  is  the  father 
of  a  fine  young  son,  Alexander  Stirling  Tarbet. 

Mr.  Tarbet  is  the  owner  of  the  "Inter-Mountain  Catholic,"  which  was  established  by 
him  in  1899.  He  also  purchased  a  three-quarters  interest  in  the  "Colorado  Catholic,"  pub- 
lished in  Denver  since  1884,  which  he  merged  with  the  "Inter-Mountain  Catholic"  of 
Salt  Lake  City.  Mr.  Tarbet  financed  the  paper,  and  when  it  was  on  a  paying  basis  turned 
the  whole  control  and  operation  over  to  the  church,  which  receives  all  the  profits.  The 
"Inter-Mountain  Catholic"  has  a  big  patronage  and  is  in  a  prosperous  condition. 

Mr.  Tarbet  is  a  very  charitable  man,  and  his  donations  to  the  church  have  been  liberal. 
He  has  contributed  largely  to  the  St.  Ann's  Orphanage,  and  made  a  subscription  of  $10,000 
to  the  Cathedral  recently. 

203 


J.  F.  BTJBTON 


JOSEPH  FIELDING  BURTON 

In  the  front  rank  of  the  army  of  men  who  are  fighting  for  the  cause  of 
progress  in  the  inter-mountain  region,  and  establishing  there  a  mighty  com- 
mercial empire,  which,  great  already  in  achievement,  but  many  times  greater 
in  its  possibilities  and  promise,  is  Joseph  Fielding  Burton,  general  manager, 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Utah  Implement- Vehicle  Company.  As  an  added 
incentive  to  the  promotion  of  industrial  activity  in  the  great  region  lying 
between  the  Rockies  and  the  Sierras,  Mr.  Burton  brings  to  his  natural  energy 
and  business  capacity  an  innate  love  for  his  "mountain  home."  He  has  the 
native  son's  affection  for  his  beautiful  surroundings  to  a  degree  which  few  who 
have  come  here  from  other  sections  of  the  country  are  permitted  to  equal  in 
intensity.  For  Mr.  Burton  was  born  at  Marriott,  Weber  County,  Utah,  March 
3,  1861,  of  a  pioneer  family,  and  his  life  history  is  intimately  connected  with 
the  advance  that  Utah  and  the  inter-mountain  territory  have  made  in  the  past 
half  century. 

Mr.  Burton  is  the  son  of  William  Walton  Burton,  a  retired  merchant,  and 
Rachel  Fielding  Burton.  The  boy  received  most  of  his  education  in  Ogden, 
the  metropolis  of  Weber  County,  and  there  he  spent  the  most  of  his  life,  until 
twelve  years  ago,  when  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City.  In  Logan,  Utah,  he  was  mar- 
ried, March  31,  1886,  to  Mary  A.  E.  Driver,  second  daughter  of  William  and 
Charlotte  Emblen  Driver.  To  that  union  eight  children  have  been  born: 
Rachel  Emblen,  Joseph  Howard,  Lee  Driver,  Ida  May,  Vilate  Pearl,  Charlotte, 
Mary  Ellen  and  Margaret. 

Like  many  another  man  who  has  attained  success  in  business  circles  in  the 
inter-mountain  country,  Mr.  Burton  gained  his  first  experience  with  the  Zion's 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution,  serving  in  the  Ogden  branch  for  six  years. 
He  then  engaged  in  the  mercantile  and  implement  business  in  Ogden,  Utah, 
with  his  father,  under  the  firm  name  of  Burton,  Herrick  &  White,  subsequently 
incorporated  under  the  name"  of  the  Consolidated  Implement  Company,  and 
now  known  as  the  Consolidated  Wagon  &  Machine  Company.  In  the  year 
1903,  however,  Mr.  Burton  severed  connection  with  the  latter  company,  for  the 
purpose  of  devoting  his  entire  time  to  other  interests.  From  such  a  compara- 
tively humble  beginning,  his  activities  have  spread  out  in  the  past  quarter  of 
a  century,  until  now  he  is  interested  in  many  industrial  enterprises  in  three 
States.  In  addition  to  holding  the  important  position  with  the  Utah  Imple- 
ment-Vehicle Company,  already  mentioned,  Mr.  Burton  is  vice-president  of  the 
W.  W.  Burton  &  Sons  Company  of  Ogden;  vice-president  of  the  Burton  Mer- 
cantile Company  of  Montpelier,  Idaho,  and  of  Afton  and  Freedom,  Wyoming; 
vice-president  of  the  Burton  Creamery  Association,  which  has  offices  and  plants 
in  the  same  cities. 

Nor  have  his  activities  been  entirely  confined  to  the  realms,  of  business. 
Mr.  Burton  has  found  time,  despite  his  many  duties  in  connection  with  these 
important  industrial  enterprises,  to  serve  his  fellow-citizens  of  the  inter-moun- 
tain country  by  taking  a  prominent  and  influential  part  in  the  public  affairs  of 
the  day.  Especially  has  he  been  interested  in  the  cause  of  education,  and  for 
three  years,  1904-5-6,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  Ogden, 
representing  the  Fifth  Ward  of  that  city. 

Mr.  Burton  has  a  beautiful  and  comfortable  home  at  385  Fifth  Avenue,  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  he  is  as  highly  respected  for  his  social  qualities  in  his  large 
circle  of  friends,  as  he  is  esteemed  for  his  capacity  and  energy  among  those 
with  whom  he  has  business  relations. 

205 


JOS.  S.  WELLS 


JOSEPH  S.  WELLS 

Prominent  among  the  native-born  Salt-Lakers  is  Joseph  S.  Wells,  who  for 
a  number  of  years  has  occupied  the  position  of  general  manager  of  the  Utah 
Light  &  Kailway  Company. 

Mr.  Wells  was  born  May  25,  1862,  his  father  being  Daniel  H.  Wells,  a  well- 
known  lumberman  and  farmer,  and  prominent  among  the  business  men  of  his 
time.  His  mother  was  Martha  G.  Harris. 

Mr.  Wells  began  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
later  attended  the  University  of  Deseret,  from  which  in  due  time  he  graduated. 
March  14,  1888,  he  was  married  to  Anna  E.  Sears.  Five  children  were  born  to 
the  couple:  Alice  Francis,  Herman  Joseph,  Byron  Sears,  Richard  Harris,  and 
Geneva.  In  1903  his  wife  died,  and  on  June  20,  1907,  he  married  Mamie  E. 
Lovell,  who  has  one  child,  Margaret. 

Mr.  Wells  has  long  been  regarded  as  one  of  the  prominent  railroad  and 
business  men  of  the  inter-mountain  region.  He  went  into  the  railroad  business 
first  upon  leaving  school.  For  a  number  of  years  he  filled  a  clerical  position 
with  the  Ogden  branch  of  the  Z.  C.  M.  I.  Leaving  this,  he  engaged  in  the 
insurance  business  as  an  employee  of  Heber  J.  Grant  &  Co.  On  May  1,  1889, 
he  returned  to  the  railway  service,  becoming  secretary  of  the  Salt  Lake  City 
Railroad  Company,  now  the  Utah  Light  &  Railway  Company.  He  retained  con- 
tinuous connection  with  that  concern,  and  as  a  result  of  his  efforts,  in  Novem- 
ber, 1907,  was  appointed  general  manager  of  the  system. 

Mr.  Wells  has  long' been  prominent  in  local  business  life,  and  at  this  time 
is  a  director  in  the  Zion's  Benefit  Building  Society;  and  president  and  director 
of  the  Victor  Consolidated  Mining  Company.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Wilson  Publishing  Company,  besides  having  half  a  dozen  other  minor  business 
interests. 

Like  his  father,  who  for  ten  years  was  mayor  of  Salt  Lake  City,  Mr.  Wells 
has  always  been  an  advocate  of  the  introduction  of  modern  methods  into  every 
branch  of  industry.  Under  his  efficient  management,  the  affairs  of  the  Utah 
Light  &  Railway  Company  have  been  highly  prosperous.  In  private  life  the 
influence  of  his  personality  has  been  just  as  potent  among  his  large  circle  of 
friends. 

Mr.  Wells  occupies  a  handsome  residence  at  257  Second  Avenue,  and  it  is 
here  that  this  genial  business  man  is  seen  at  his  best.  From  the  standpoint  of 
success  achieved  at  a  comparatively  early  age,  Mr.  Wells  is  enabled  to  look  back 
upon  a  past  wherein  failure  has  had  no  place  and  forward  on  a  vista  of  many 
years  of  promise. 

For  years  past  Mr.  Wells  has  been  recognized  as  one  of  the  prominent  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter-day  Saints.  He  now  holds  the 
position  of  first  counselor  to  President  R.  W.  Young,  of  Ensign  Stake,  and  he 
has  long  been  recognized  as  a  sincere  and  earnest  churchman  and  a  man  who  is 
of  real  value  to  the  church. 


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WALDEMAB  VAN  COTT 


WALDEMAR  VAN  COTT 

Waldemar  Van  Cott  was  born  December  11,  1859,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  his 
father  being  John  Van  Cott,  a  farmer,  and  his  mother,  Laura  L.  Van  Cott. 

Mr.  Van  Cott  obtained  his  education  in  the  University  of  Utah  and  the 
University  of  Michigan.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Ella  Quayle  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  August  17,  1881,  and  five  children  were  born  to  them,  three  daughters  and 
two  sons.  They  were  Pearl,  Nora  and  Helen,  the  last  of  whom  is  not  living. 
Nora  is  married  to  John  Crombie  Niven,  a  mining  engineer.  The  sons  are 
Waldemar  Q.  Van  Cott  and  John  Daire  Van  Cott,  the  former  of  whom  is 
attending  college  in  the  East.  Mr.  Van  Cott  is  an  attorney-at-law,  having  been 
admitted  to  practice  at  the  Utah  bar  in  1885.  He  is  the  head  of  the  legal 
firm  of  Van  Cott,  Allison  &  Riter,  being  Waldemar  Van  Cott,  E.  M.  Allison, 
Jr.,  and  W.  D.  Riter. 

Mr.  Van  Cott  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club  of  Salt  Lake,  and  of  the  Hol- 
land Society  of  New  York  City.  This  society  is  one  of  the  oldest  on  the  conti- 
nent, its  founding  being  coincident  with  the  first  arrival  of  Hollanders  at  New 
Amsterdam.  Mr.  Van  Cott's  great-great-great-great-grandfather  was  Claes 
Nickolas  Cornelissen  Van  Cats,  born  in  Schoonhoven,  Holland,  in  1640,  emi- 
grated to  New  Amsterdam  in  1652,  married  July  23,  1670,  to  Catalina  Jans. 
His  great-great-great-grandfather  was  Johannes  Claessen  Van  Cats,  born  in 
New  York,  October  14,  1674.  His  great-great-grandfather  was  Nickolas  Van 
Cats,  born  at  Flushing,  L.  I.,  1715,  and  married  to  Jannetje  Woertman.  His 
great-grandfather  was  Johannes  (John)  Van  Cott,  born  April  22,  1747,  at 
Oyster  Bay,  L.  I.,  and  married  to  Maud  Jemima  Titus.  His  grandfather  was 
Losee  Van  Cott,  born  in  Washington,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  November 
14,  1789.  His  father  was  John  Van  Cott,  born  in  Canaan,  Columbia  County, 
New  York,  September  7,  1814,  and  his  mother  was  Laura  Lund.  His  father 
became  a  convert  to  Mormonism  in  New  York  State,  and  was  among  the  earli- 
est of  those  to  move  to  Nauvoo  and  on  to  Utah.  The  subject  of  this  sketch, 
though  born  in  a  Mormon  family,  has  never  affiliated  with  that  Church.  His 
father  died  in  February,  1882,  in  the  sixty-eighth  year  of  his  life. 

The  ancient  history  of  the  Van  Cott  family  shows  that  in  1304,  during  the 
war  between  Flanders  and  Holland,  Lord  Van  Kats,  who  by  Lord  Guye  had 
been  appointed  chatelaine  of  the  Castle  Schoonhoven,  arriving  in  that  city  to 
see  what  was  happening  there,  was  arrested  and  imprisoned  by  the  burghers, 
which  was  reported  to  Lord  Witte  at  Dordrecht;  who  thereupon  appeared  with 
a  force  before  Schoonhoven,  but  the  son  of  Lord  Klass  Van  Kats,  who  had 
remained  in  the  castle,  would  not  surrender  it  and  it  was  invested.  Yoiiker 
Willen,  son  of  the  Count  of  Holland,  immediately  joined  the  forces  of  the 
besiegers  of  the  castle  where  the  following  ruse  was  employed:  A  tower  (even- 
hoge)  was  moved  up  against  the  wall  of  the  castle.  At  the  extremity  nearest 
the  castle  the  old  and  imprisoned  Lord  Van  Kats  had  been  fastened.  The  old 
lord  had  claimed  that  he  would,  in  that  position,  be  the  first  to  receive  the  arrows 
and  stones  of  the  defenders.  This  moved  the  young  lord,  and  to  avoid  being  the 
cause  of  his  father 's  death  he  surrendered  the  fort  on  the  condition  that  all  lives 
within  would  be  spared.  The  evenhoge  was  a  wooden  tower  built  of  any  prac- 
tical height  on  wheels  and  was  the  same  implement  used  for  the  same  purposes 
by  the  Romans  under  the  name  sambuca.  In  the  records  of  the  Reformed 
Dutch  Church  at  Oyster  Bay  there  are  many  entries  of  births  of  the  Van  Kats, 
and  the  marriages  between  them  and  other  Dutch  families. 


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J.    M.  WILFLEY 


JOHN  M.  WILFLEY 

One  of  the  foremost  among  Salt  Lake's  prominent  business  men  is 
John  M.  Wilfley,  who  first  saw  the  light  of  day  in  St.  Joseph,  Missouri, 
September  21,  1863.  Born  in  the  stirring  days  of  the  Civil  War,  Mr. 
Wilfley  early  showed  an  energy  and  earnestness  of  purpose  which  are 
largely  responsible  for  his  achievement  in  a  business  way  during  the 
years  which  have  followed. 

His  father  was  Eedman  Wilfley,  a  retired  miller  of  St.  Joseph,  Mis- 
souri, and  his  mother  Maria  L.  Baker.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Kansas  City,  and  later  entered  business  life  in  the  State  of 
his  nativity.  In  1903  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  has  since 
made  his  home. 

In  December,  1887,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Lucy  Fopping  by  whom 
he  has  two  children,  namely :  Louis  T.  and  Frank  T. 

He  married  Louise  Betty  in  1898. 

Mr.  Wilfley  is  a  man  of  wealth  and  has  long  been  regarded  as  one 
of  the  substantial  business  men  of  the  State.  He  is  the  owner  of  the 
Wilfley  apartments  which  are  among  the  more  fashionable  apartment 
houses  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  is  also  the  owner  of  other  local  real  estate, 
in  the  handling  of  which  he  has  been  uniformly  successful. 

Mr.  Wilfley  was  for  some  time  interested  largely  in  the  well-known 
Minnie  Moore  Mining  Company  of  Bellevue,  Idaho,  which  company 
attained  an  enviable  reputation  under  the  management  of  Mr.  Wilfley 
and  his  associates.  As  a  builder  he  is  well  and  favorably  known,  and 
in  every  line  he  has  attempted  success  has  smiled  upon  his  efforts. 

While  fully  alive  to  the  duties  of  his  position,  Mr.  Wilfley  is  a  man 
of  modest  tastes  and  an  unostentatious  bearing  which  have  gone  far 
to  endear  him  to  his  large  circle  of  friends.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Commercial  Club,  and  has  always  taken  a  foremost  place  in  such  public 
functions  as  he  considered  it  his  duty  to  take  part  in. 

Mr.  Wilfley  makes 'his  home  at  the  Wilfley  apartments  where  he  lives 
quietly  and  happily  in  the  bosom  of  his  family.  Well  posted  on  current 
events,  and  with  a  fund  of  information  and  knowledge  of  human  nature 
gained  through  years  of  association  with  the  better  element  of  Western 
business  men,  Mr.  Wilfley  is  at  once  a  jovial  companion  and  an  interest- 
ing and  entertaining  conversationalist. 

So  far  during  his  interesting  business  career  he  has  been  eminently 
successful,  and  should  he  again  turn  his  attention  to  the  more  active  pur- 
suits of  life,  his  friends  predict  for  him  an  even  greater  measure  of 
fame. 


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W.    D.    LIVINGSTON 


WILLIAM  D.  LIVINGSTON 

The  saving  of  the  "West,  as  it  were,  has  been  brought  about  by  means  of  irri- 
gation, and  surely  on  every  side  we  see  vegetation  where  but  a  few  years  ago  a 
barren  waste  existed.  That  irrigation  is  just  in  its  infancy  it  is  easy  to  sup- 
pose, and  what  changes  it  will  make  in  this  country  of  ours,  and  what  bearing 
it  will  have  on  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  the  country,  is  hard  to  calculate. 
In  the  Western  States,  Utah  is  considered  first  when  it  comes  to  irrigating,  and 
as  it  is  a  science,  Utah  has  the  enviable  reputation  of  having  mastered  it.  Among 
the  many  prominent  men  interested  in  irrigation  projects  in  this  Western  coun- 
try, and  more  especially  in  this  State,  is  William  D.  Livingston.  Mr.  Living- 
ston is  considered  to  be  an  authority  on  irrigation,  and  that  he  gives  his  entire 
time  to  this  industry,  you  might  say,  and  is  interested  in  several  projects,  attests 
this  to  be  a  fact. 

Mr.  Livingston  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  the  26th  of  March,  1871.  He 
is  the  son  of  William  Livingston  and  Lilias  Livingston.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  of  this  city.  Being  very  ambitious  and  particu- 
larly bright  and  capable  of  applying  himself  to  whatever  task  presented  itself, 
he  was  successful  from  the  start.  When  yet  a  young  man  he  went  to  Manti  and 
became  very  prominent  in  Sanpete  County.  He  entered  politics  there  and 
became  county  recorder  and  county  attorney  of  Sanpete.  As  a  lawyer  he  was 
eminently  successful,  and  after  he  had  filled  the  above  offices  so  capably  he  was 
elected  district  attorney  of  the  Seventh  Utah  District.  It  is  a  well-known 
fact  that  as  district  attorney  he  filled  the  office  creditably  and  efficiently. 

About  this  time  he  began  to  interest  himself  in  the  varous  irrigation  proj- 
ects which  were  then  demanding  the  attention  of  the  Western  people.  He 
became  an  enthusiastic  worker  and  soon  was  looked  upon  as  one  of  the  pioneers 
in  the  great  projects  then  on  foot.  His  ideas  and  views  while  connected  with 
these  schemes  proved  to  be  so  valuable  that  he  was  sought  as  an  adviser  and 
officer  in  about  all  of  the  companies  which  were  being  organized  and  of  those 
which  at  the  present  time  are  being  floated.  While  most  of  his  operations  have 
been  in  Utah,  he  is  interested  too  in  projects  in  Nevada,  and  his  whole  time 
is  being  devoted  to  the  success  of  the  companies  of  which  he  is  an  officer.  He 
has  often  remarked  that  the  salvation  of  the  West  must  be  in  the  irrigation  of 
the  arid  lands,  and  this  is  an  evident  truth.  At  the  present  time  Mr.  Livingston 
is  general  manager,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  following  companies :  Abra- 
ham Irrigation  Company,  Spalding-Livingston  Investment  Company,  Gunni- 
son  Valley  Reclamation  Company,  Moapa  Garden  Company,  Beaver  Land  Com- 
pany, Price  Valley  Irrigation  Company,  and  the  Gunnison  Irrigation  and  Irri- 
gation Investments. 

As  much  of  Mr.  Livingston's  work  is  in  the  southern  part  of  the  State,  he 
maintains  two  homes,  one  at  Manti  and  the  other  at  Salt  Lake  City.  He  is 
prominently  identified  with  the  Commercial  Clubs  of  Salt  Lake,  Manti  and 
Gunnison  and  he  is  a  live  wire  in  all  three  of  these. 

Although  a  very  busy  man,  he  is  very  domestic  in  his  habits  and  tastes.  His 
domestic  life  is  a  very  happy  one  and  he  devotes  much  of  his  time  to  his  chil- 
dren, seven  in  number.  They  are:  William  E.,  Ernest  E.,  Annie  L.,  LeTStnd 
V.,  Urban  Stanley,  Wendell  A.,  and  Lettie  Lucile.  He  has  a  beautiful  resi- 
dence at  958  E  Street,  Salt  Lake,  and  this  is  the  scene  of  many  pretty  house 
parties. 

Mr.  Livingston  is  looked  upon  by  his  fellowmen  as  being  honest,  capable  and 
progressive,  and  the  future  holds  much  in  store  for  him. 

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JOSEPH    LIPPMAN 


Prominent  among  Salt  Lake's  legal  fraternity,  and  a  resident  of  the  State 
since  1882,  is  Joseph  Lippman. 

Mr.  Lippman,  who  was  born  in  Mobile,  Alabama,  in  June,  1858,  was  left 
fatherless  when  but  six  years  of  age.  His  father  had  been  a  cotton  planter  and 
slave  owner,  and  in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  espoused  the  Southern  cause.  In 
1875,  when  but  seventeen  years  of  age,  he  was  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia 
High  School,  and  immediately  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Eli  K.  Price, 
at  that  time  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  the  Philadelphia  bar.  In  1879  he 
was  a  member  of  the  graduating  class  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  its 
law  department,  and  after  a  six  months'  sojourn  in  Europe  returned  to  Phila- 
delphia where  he  practiced  his  profession,  thence  going  to  Chicago,  and  thence 
to  Colorado. 

In  the  years  which  have  followed,  Mr.  Lippman 's  career  has  more  than  ful- 
filled its  early  promise.  As  a  lawyer  he  was  successful  almost  from  the  start, 
and,  had  he  seen  fit  to  adhere  entirely  to  the  practice  of  his  profession,  there  are 
perhaps  no  heights  to  which  he  might  not  have  attained.  But  Mr.  Lippman 's 
entry  into  Utah  was  at  an  eventful  period  in  the  State's  history,  and,  like  most 
of  the  public-spirited  men  of  the  time,  he  was  early  drawn  into  public  life. 

Mr.  Lippman 's  first  venture  was  in  the  newspaper  field,  and  here  too  he  met 
"\vith  signal  success.  He  has  the  unique  distinction  of  having  published  and 
edited  the  first  Gentile  evening  newspaper  in  the  then  Territory  of  Utah,  namely, 
the  "Chronicle,"  which  was  officially  born  in  October,  1882.  In  this  connection 
it  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  franchise  secured  from  the  Associated  Press  for 
his  paper  at  that  time  was  the  last  issued  by  that  corporation  in  Salt  Lake  City 
and  is  now  controlled  just  as  obtained  by  Mr.  Lippman  by  the  Salt  Lake  ' '  Tele- 
gram." It  was  not  long,  however,  before  Mr.  Lippman  saw  the  need  of  a  wider 
field  for  his  talents  than  that  afforded  through  the  medium  of  a  recently  started 
evening  daily  under  conditions  such  as  existed  at  that  time,  and  in  1884  he 
decided  to  throw  in  his  lot  with  the  "Tribune,"  of  which  paper  be  became  city 
editor,  and  later  telegraph  editor.  This  connection  he  retained  until  1889,  when 
the  practice  of  the  law  again  claimed  his  attention. 

In  1895  he  became  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Powers,  Straup  &  Lippman, 
which  connection  he  retained  until  1902,  when  the  partnership  was  dissolved  on 
account  of  the  various  interests  of  the  members.  During  his  entire  career  in  Utah 
Mr.  Lippman  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  politics,  and  at  all  times  has  stood 
for  his  principles  shoulder  to  shoulder  with  many  of  the  men  who  in  the  past 
have  helped  to  make  the  political  history  of  the  State.  A  staunch  Republican 
at  heart,  he  found  on  his  arrival  in  Utah  no  such  party  to  which  he  could  ally 
himself,  and  he  devoted  himself  and  his  paper  to  the  Liberal  cause,  which  was 
opposed  to  church  interference  in  politics,  and  from  then  on  to  the  time  of  its 
dissolution  took  an  active  part  in  the  campaigns  of  the  Liberal  Party.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  American  Party  in  Utah,  in  1904. 

In  July,  1904,  he  assumed  the  general  managership  of  the  "Tribune,"  in 
wrhich  he  was  financially  interested,  and  retained  that  position  until  October, 
1905.  He  was  United  States  district  attorney  from  June  8,  1902,  to  July  4, 
.1906.  He  was  Territorial  librarian  and  statistician  from  1890  to  1892,  and  was 
county  recorder  of  Salt  Lake  County  in  1893  and  1894. 

In  private  life  Mr.  Lippman  may  be  described  as  one  of  the  quiet,  home-loving 
kind.  He  has  resided  for  twenty  years  past  at  603  Third  Avenue  with  his 
family,  consisting  of  his  son,  Marc  Blaine  Lippman  and  two  stepdaughters.  In 
private  as  well  as  in  public  life  fortune  has  smiled  upon  Mr.  Lippman. 

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S.    S.    POUTER 


SAM  S.  PORTER 

In  Sam  S.  Porter,  manager  of  the  Kenyon  Hotel,  Salt  Lake  City  has  an 
example  of  that  younger  set  of  business  men  which  plays  such  an  important 
part  in  industry,  and  particularly  in  Western  industry;  for  it  is  often  a  matter 
of  remark  that  much  of  the  success  of  the  West  is  due  to  the  fact  that  young 
men  are  at  the  head  of  its  important  institutions. 

Mr.  Porter  is  a  native  of  Chicago,  where  he  was  born  in  1876.  His  father 
is  Don  H.  Porter,  proprietor  of  the  Kenyon  Hotel,  a  man  of  strictly  business 
affairs,  who  is  of  a  benevolent  disposition,  and  a  man  widely  known,  particularly 
as  "mine  host  of  the  Kenyon,"  and  Sam  has  been  raised  "to  the  manor  born" 
and  drilled  on  the  lines  that  the  hotel  business  does  not  entirely  mean  a  mere 
livelihood,  but  to  know  it  well  and  to  make  it— justly  and  liberally— a  profession 
and  an  art. 

The  Porters  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  about  1892  or  1893,  and  their  son  received 
his  education  in  the  Salt  Lake  City  public  and  high  schools  and  at  the  University 
of  Utah. 

Of  an  active  disposition,  and  possessed  of  a  good  physique,  Mr.  Sam  Porter 
at  college  was  interested  in  athletics,  and  won  early  distinction  for  himself  as 
a  member  of  the  All  Hallows  College  and  University  football  teams.  Later  he 
played  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  team.  He  also  joined  the  National  Guard  of  Utah, 
and  was  captain  in  that  body  for  four  years.  When  the  Spanish-American 
War  broke  out,  Mr.  Porter  was  quick  to  answer  the  call  of  his  country,  and  he 
served  as  quartermaster  sergeant  in  the  first  Utah  Volunteer  Cavalry,  Troop  A. 

In  the  business  world,  Mr.  Porter  got  his  start  as  a  clerk  with  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Bell  Telephone  Company,  leaving  that  to  go  to  the  war.  Returning, 
he  joined  forces  with  his  father  in  the  Kenyon  Hotel,  and  as  manager  of  that  hos- 
telry he  is  well  known  to  the  traveling  public  from  every  part  of  the  Union. 
The  energy  he  has  shown,  and  the  popularity  he  has  attained  in  his  present  posi- 
tion, presage  for  him  a  future  full  of  success  and  promise. 

Mr.  Porter's  activities  have  by  no  means  been  confined  to  the  hotel  field. 
True  to  a  trait  that  is  characteristic  of  the  Western  business  man,  he  has 
branched  out  along  many  lines.  Among  the  more  important  positions  he  holds 
with  other  enterprises  are  those  of  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Pittsburg-Salt  Lake  Oil  Company,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Rexall  Silver 
and  Copper  Mining  Company,  and  vice-president  of  the  Wasatch  Electric  Com- 
pany. 

And  not  only  in  the  business  field  have  Mr.  Porter's  qualities  won  for  him 
both  popularity  and  success.  From  his  college  days  to  the  present  he  has  been 
a  leader  in  the  social  sets  in  which  he  has  moved.  He  is  a  well-known  and  popu- 
lar member  of  the  Country  Club,  and  in  the  Commercial  Club  his  business 
acumen  and  energy  have  long  been  recognized. 

Mr.  Porter  was  married  to  a  Chicago  girl,  Miss  Amy  F.  Bersbach,  and  they 
have  two  baby  daughters,  Helen  May  Porter  and  Lilian  Claire  Porter.  His 
pretty  residence,  in  the  fashionable  quarter  of  the  city,  East  South  Temple  Street, 
has  been  the  scene  of  many  an  enjoyable  and  select  social  function. 


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.    E.   LILJENBERG 


N.  EDWARD  LILJENBERG 

Nils  Edward  Liljenberg,  one  of  Utah's  leading  architects,  is  a  native 
of  Sweden,  where  he  was  born  in  1869.  Of  sturdy,  thrifty,  prosperous 
parents,  he  was  given  as  many  educational  advantages  as  the  schools 
of  his  native  place  afforded,  and  later  on  he  attended  the  Polytechnic 
Institute  in  Sweden,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1888.  In  order  that  he 
might  perfect  himself  more  in  his  chosen  profession  as  an  architect,  he 
subsequently  took  an  additional  course  in  New  York  City,  and  then 
readily  found  employment  there,  where  he  remained  for  a  time,  serving 
as  chief  draughtsman  and  having  charge  of  much  important  work.  He 
was  next  engaged  by  an  American  firm  and  sent  to  Europe,  and  was 
chief  architect  for  the  building  of  military  barracks  at  Stockholm,  Copen- 
hagen, and  St.  Petersburg.  He  was  successful,  and  later  figured  the 
barracks  at  Mukden,  Manchuria,  for  the  Russian  army.  He  next  built 
portable  cottages,  which  were  shipped  to  the  Transvaal,  South  Africa, 
for  the  use  of  the  troops. 

In  1902  he  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  for  a  time  was  employed  as 
draughtsman  for  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad,  but  subsequently 
resigned  to  go  into  business  for  himself.  He  did  considerable  work, 
including  the  designing  of  the  building  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  He  designed 
and  had  entire  charge  of  the  building  of  the  Westminster  College,  which 
enterprise  is  under  the  direction  of  the  National  Board  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church.  This  work  cost  in  the  neighborhood  of  $300,000. 

He  also  designed  the  Murdock  Academy,  the  I.  X.  L.  Furniture  Com- 
pany's building,  and  many  others,  including  public  schools,  high  schools, 
and  many  private  residences  in  and  around  Salt  Lake  City.  Beside  his 
architectural  profession,  he  is  also  interested  in  numerous  mills  and 
wholesale  business  houses. 

Mr.  Liljenberg  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  Sundh  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  they  are  the  parents  of  three  children,  Irene,  Melva,  and  Stanley 
Liljenberg.  Mr.  Liljenberg 's  residence  is  at  120  0  Street,  Salt  Lake 
City.  Mr.  Liljenberg  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  of  the 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 


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MARTIN  HARKNESS 

People  who  live  in  the  mountain  region  and  on  the  Pacific  slope 
occasionally  meet  an  individual  wearing  in  the  lapel  of  his  coat  a  golden 
emblem  of  a  bear.  Years  ago  there  were  hundreds  who  wore  the  golden 
badge,  but  the  ranks  have  thinned,  the  closing  up  as  a  comrade  fell  has 
been  such  that  there  is  but  a  handful  left,  and  in  a  few  years  later  they 
will  be  in  memory  only;  for  the  wearer  of  this  distinctive  badge  was 
an  Argonaut.  Not  one  of  those  who  sailed  on  the  good  ship  Argo  with 
Jason  in  search  of  the  golden  fleece,  but  who  braved  dangers  and  perils 
and  untold  hardships  in  voyages  around  the  Horn  or  across  the  plains, 
the  Great  American  Desert,  in  search  of  the  yellow  metal  in  California 
—the  Forty-niners. 

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In  Utah  there  is  but  one  individual  who  wears  this  emblem  or  who 
can  wear  it.  That  man  is  Martin  Harkness,  pioneer  of  the  gold  coast, 
pioneer  of  Utah,  one  of  the  class  of  people  who  made  the  great  West 
habitable  for  millions.  Born  at  Pelham,  Massachusetts,  November  19, 
1831,  educated  at  Amherst,  he  left  home  in  October,  1848,  at  the  age  of 
seventeen,  with  an  elder  brother,  for  Chicago,  at  that  time  a  town  of 
18,500  souls. 

While  in  the  Illinois  metropolis,  as  it  was  then  the  metropolis  of 
the  West,  stories  of  gold  finds  on  the  Pacific  slope  found  their  way  East. 
These  stories  of  the  finds  of  the  yellow  metal  on  the  Eio  Sacramento 
and  its  tributaries  resulted  in  a  fever  among  many  to  see  the  new  Gol- 
conda.  Martin  Harkness  and  his  brother  were  among  the  number.  The 
Mississippi  River  was  the  dividing  line  westward.  Twenty-five  hun- 
dred miles  through  a  trackless  waste,  and  then— gold.  Thousands  made 
the  trip  around  the  Horn,  and  hundreds  crossed  the  plains.  Martin 
Harkness  was  of  the  hundreds. 

The  journey  across  the  plains  was  over  the  trail  from  St.  Joseph, 
via  Fort  Kearney,  thence  up  the  South  Platte  Eiver  to  its  junction  with 
the  North  Platte,  thence  up  that  river  and  the  Sweetwater  to  near  its 
fountain  head  at  South  Pass,  then  to  Fort  Bridger,  and  to  Salt  Lake. 
From  Zion  over  the  old  Fort  Hall  trail  and  down  the  Humbolt  River  to 
Goose  Lake,  thence  to  Lassen  ranch  on  the  Sacramento  River  and  the 
old  Lassen  trail.  Sixty  days  was  required  to  reach  Salt  Lake.  Sixty- 
one  more  to  the  Mecca  on  the  Coast,  and  then  riches— no,  just  a  living. 

Twenty  years  Martin  Harkness  remained  in  the  mining  region  of 
central  and  northern  California.  Then  in  1860  he  went  to  Esmeralda 
County,  Nevada,  where  he  resided  for  nine  years.  Then  a  year  was 
spent  in  the  Puget  Sound  country,  where  he  prospected  for  mineral. 
In  1870  Mr.  Harkness  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City,  through  which  city 
he  had  passed  twenty-two  years  before,  coming  to  Zion  via  the  Boise 
trail,  and  since  then  he  has  been  a  prominent  figure  in  Salt  Lake. 

Mr.  Harkness  was  made  a  Mason  in  California.  He  now  affiliates 
with  the  Argenta  Lodge  of  Salt  Lake ;  is  also  a  member  of  the  Scottish 
Rite  Orient  of  Salt  Lake,  and  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason.  He  has 
seen  Salt  Lake  City  grow  from  a  hamlet  to  a  magnificent  city.  He  has 
seen  the  development  of  more  than  two-thirds  of  the  United  States.  He 
is,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight,  a  hearty,  vigorous  man. 


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DUNCAN    MAC  VICHIE 


DUNCAN  MAC  VICKIE 

Prominent  among  the  successful  mining  men,  and  one  who,  by  his 
own  efforts,  has  risen  to  a  position  of  importance  in  the  mining  world, 
is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Duncan  MacVichie,  who  is  consulting  engi- 
neer for  the  Bingham  Mining  Company's  properties  of  Utah,  which 
properties  are  among  the  largest  and  most  productive  in  the  inter- 
mountain  region. 

Duncan  MacVichie  was  born  September  20,  1858,  at  Lancaster,  Glen- 
gary  County,  Canada,  and  is  the  son  of  Peter  and  Margrette  MacGregor 
MacVichie.  His  father  was  a  farmer  in  moderate  circumstances.  Dun- 
can was  educated  at  Fond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin,  and  arrived  there  in  1877. 
His  first  mining  experience,  which  he  was  naturally  adapted  to,  was  in 
the  Lake  Superior  region,  where  he  remained  for  several  years  acquir- 
ing a  practical  knowledge  of  every  detail  of  mining  work,  which  he 
decided  to  follow.  He  came  to  Utah  in  1897,  and  his  record  here  has 
been  one  of  continual  advances  and  successes.  In  July  of  the  same  year 
he  was  given  charge  of  the  De  Lamar  Mercur  mines,  where  he  remained 
until  1901,  and  since  that  date  has  done  as  much  as  any  man  in  the 
mining  business  towards  developing  the  great  mineral  resources  of  this 
country.  He  has  equipped  a  number  of  mining  properties  in  Utah, 
Idaho,  Montana,  and  California,  and  his  important  connection  with  the 
Bingham  Consolidated  Mining  Company  is  an  evidence  of  his  invaluable 
worth  as  a  mining  expert  and  as  managing  director  of  these  immense 
properties.  He  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  foremost  mining  authorities 
in  the  inter-mountain  country.  Still  in  the  prime  of  life  and  great  use- 
fulness, Mr.  MacVichie  may  well  feel  satisfied  with  the  career  in  which 
he  has  attained  pronounced  success. 

Mr.  MacVichie  was  married  in  Michigan  in  1893,  and  is  the  father  of 
two  children,  Helen  C.  and  Bell  D.  MacVichie.  His  residence  is  at  702 
East  South  Temple  Street,  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  MacVichie  is  also  interested  in  other  mining,  banking,  and  stock 
raising  companies,  with  which  his  time  and  attention  are  well  taken  up. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  and  Commercial  clubs  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

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JAS.   D.   MUKDOCH 


JAMES  D.  MURDOCH 

When  one  reaches  the  half  century  mark  after  a  life  in  which  there  were  no 
cessations  from  hard  and  arduous  labor  and  looks  over  the  years  of  toil,  but 
of  the  kind  that  spell  success,  one  can  surely  say  that  it  was  worth  while  and  the 
surest  way  to  reach  the  stage  is  by  fair  dealings,  honesty,  integrity  and  hard 
work.  This  is  the  case  of  James  D.  Murdoch,  a  well-known  and  respected  citizen 
of  this  city. 

Born  on  the  3rd  of  January,  1850,  in  Cronberry,  Parish  of  Auchinleck, 
County  of  Ayr,  Scotland,  he  was  the  son  of  William  Murdoch  and  Janet  Len- 
nox. His  father  was  coal  mines  manager  at  Muirkirk,  County  of  Ayr,  Scotland. 
Mr.  Murdoch  was  educated  in  the  Muirkirk  Iron  Works  School,  and  at  the 
Glasgow  Mechanics  Institution,  Glasgow,  Scotland.  Having  learned  the  machin- 
ist trade  he  decided  to  seek  his  fortunes  in  America  and  when  twenty  years  of 
age  he  arrived  in  New  York,  in  May  of  1870.  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  seemed 
to  be  the  Mecca  for  mechanics  at  that  time  and  there  went  the  young  man. 
For  nine  long  years  he  worked  at  his  trade  in  the  ' '  Smoky  City, ' '  and  then  he 
decided  that  he  wanted  to  see  some  of  the  great  United  States.  Accordingly  he 
came  West  in  1879  and  located  in  Park  City.  That  he  was  successful  in  the 
mining  industry  in  his  city  would  be  to  put  it  mildly.  He  was  one  of  the  fore- 
most figures  in  the  camp  for  twenty-two  years  and  to-day  he  can  count  his 
friends  in  that  camp  by  the  score.  His  first  work  there  was  with  the  Ontario 
Mining  Company.  Like  other  men  of  his  perseverance  and  honesty,  he  began  at 
the  bottom,  starting  in  as  a  machinist,  at  the  Ontario  Mill.  His  rise  was  a 
rapid  one,  and  his  knowledge  of  the  technical  as  well  as  practical  end  of  the 
industry  made  his  services  indispensable. 

For  twelve  years  he  was  chief  engineer  for  the  Ontario  and  Daly  Mining 
Companies,  and  as  such  did  much  towards  making  that  property  famous  the 
world  over.  In  1900  Mr.  Murdoch,  who  had  amassed  a  goodly  share  of  the 
riches  of  this  world,  decided  that  he  had  worked  long  and  hard  enough  and 
retired  from  active  business,  although  still  busying  himself  with  a  few  interests. 
He  is  connected  with  Mr.  Thompson,  known  as  the  firm  of  Thompson  &  Mur- 
doch, is  identified  with  the  Utah-Idaho  Sugar  Company,  and  is  a  director  in  the 
State  Bank  of  Utah. 

Still  in  the  prime  of  life,  Mr.  Murdoch  is  honored  and  respected  by  those  who 
know  him  and  by  those  who  have  dealings  with  him.  He  has  been  successful 
by  earnest  application  and  by  his  straightforwardness  and  honesty.  His  domestic 
life  is  a  most  happy  one.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Lizzie  Lindsay,  at  Park  City, 
January  1,  1883.  His  wyife  died,  however,  in  1896,  and  he  was  married  again,  to 
Lyde  Thackeray,  of  Croyden,  Morgan  County,  Utah,  on  the  14th  of  November, 
1898.  These  unions  have  been  blessed  by  seven  children,  William  W.,  Effie  L.. 
Ruby  E.,  James  D.,  Helen  J.,  Gwendolyn  T.,  and  Margaret  E.  Mr.  Murdoch  is 
very  much  of  a  home  man,  and,  while  socially  he  does  not  aim  at  the  highest  pin- 
nacle, his  beautiful  residence  at  541  South  Main  Street  is  very  often  the  scene 
of  parties  and  entertainments. 

Mr.  Murdoch  takes  a  deep  interest  in  municipal  matters,  and  has  done  so  ever 
since  he  came  to  the  State.  He  was  a  member  of  the  city  council  at  Park  City 
for  two  terms,  and  made  an  enviable  record  for  himself  while  in  office.  He 
was  also  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  Utah.  At  the  present 
time  he  is  in  the  Salt  Lake  City  council  from  the  first  ward.  He  is  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Commercial  Club  and  a  Past  Grand  Master  in  the  Masonic  Order. 

Much  could  be  said  of  this  gentleman,  who  is  held  in  high  esteem  by  reason 
of  his  ideals  and  his  successful  career. 

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G.   S.   HOLMES 


GUSTAVUS  S.  HOLMES 

G.  S.  Holmes  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  because  he  had  faith  in  the 
city,  and  because  he  had  faith  in  its  future.  He  came  from  Cincinnati 
to  Denver  for  his  health;  went  from  there  to  Colorado  Springs.  Soon 
after  he  took  up  a  ranch  where  Cripple  Creek  now  stands.  He  rode  the 
range  for  four  years,  and  was  captain  of  the  round-up,  where  he 
recovered  his  health.  Then  he  knew  that  his  mission  was  to  be  a  Boni- 
face, to  keep  a  hotel,  all  of  his  ancestors  having  been  hotel-keepers.  He 
sold  out  in  Colorado,  came  to  Salt  Lake,  became  a  landlord,  is  still  a 
Salt-Laker,  is  still  a  landlord,  and  the  head  of  one  of  the  best  hotels  in 
the  country,  the  Knutsford. 

Mr.  Holmes  has  passed  through  many  vicissitudes  during  his  resi- 
dence in  Salt  Lake.  He  came  here  with  men  connected  with  the  building 
of  the  Colorado  Midland  Railroad.  All  took  options  on  and  bought 
blocks  of  vacant  land.  In  1889  the  others  sold  at  a  great  advance.  Mr. 
Holmes  held  his  on  account  of  prospects.  He  held  on  when  the  boom 
collapsed,  and  got  caught  in  the  panic  of  1893,  owing  over  $200,000. 
He  had  taken  up  the  Knutsford  Hotel  scheme  as  an  east  side  project 
when  others  on  the  west  side  were  endeavoring  to  build  the  Ontario, 
which  was  to  be  a  million  dollar  hotel,  but  the  west  side  enterprise 
never  got  beyond  the  foundation.  The  present  Commercial  Club  build- 
ing stands  on  the  Ontario  site.  The  ground  where  the  Knutsford  stands 
was  purchased  by  Messrs.  Holmes,  Eicketts,  and  others,  for  $85,000, 
and  donated  to  the  men  who  erected  the  Knutsford.  Mr.  Holmes  then 
leased  the  hotel  and  expended  $150,000  in  furnishing  it.  He  is  still  the 
owner. 

He  has  been  successful  in  business  affairs  and  can  safely  figure  his 
wealth  by  seven  figures.  It  is  estimated  that  he  is  the  fifth  or  sixth 
largest  tax-payer  in  Salt  Lake  County,  and  one  of  the  few  who  never 
lost  hope  or  faith  in  the  city's  future,  and  is  still  buying  and  improving 
property.  He  is  liberal  to  a  fault,  is  engaged  in  various  enterprises, 
and  is  always  awake  to  every  interest  of  importance.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  clubs  and  of  nearly  all  if  not. every  secret  organization;  and  inter- 
ested in  the  National  Bank  of  the  Republic  and  various  mines.  He  has 
traveled  extensively,  and  is  known  by  more  people  and  knows  more  peo- 
ple, perhaps,  than  any  other  man  in  the  West. 

He  is  a  self-made  man  and  is  hopeful  of  living  to  see  Salt  Lake  City 
occupy  her  proper  position  as  one  of  the  four  great  commercial  cities 
west  of  Chicago.  He  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  born  at  Lynchburg.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Hughes  High  School  in  Cincinnati,  the  school  that 
President  Taft  attended  and  one  of  the  same  years.  He  has  four  chil- 
dren, two  sons  and  two  daughters. 


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JAS.    A.    POLLOCK 


JAMES  A.  POLLOCK 

Probably  one  of  the  most  successful  business  men  in  Salt  Lake  City 
to-day,  and  one  who  is  respected  and  admired  by  all  on  account  of 
his  scrupulously  honest  methods  and  fair  dealing  is  James  A.  Pollock, 
president  of  the  Salt  Lake  Stock  and  Mining  Exchange  and  also  of 
James  A.  Pollock  &  Company,  bankers  and  brokers.  That  this  latter 
business  is  the  largest  in  the  inter-mountain  region  is  proof  positive  of 
the  wonderful  keenness  and  aggressiveness  of  the  man. 

Born  in  Pike  County,  Missouri,  forty-one  years  ago,  he  was  educated 
in  St.  Louis.  He  remained  in  that  city  until  1889,  when  he  went  to 
Denver,  and  in  the  following  year  came  to  Salt  Lake,  where  he  has 
been  ever  since.  At  the  time  that  he  came  here  the  Salt  Lake  Stock 
and  Mining  Exchange  had  just  started,  and  Mr.  Pollock  was  made 
secretary.  The  opportunity  for  a  bank  and  brokerage  firm  appealed 
to  Mr.  Pollock,  and  within  a  year  after  his  arrival  here  he  established 
his  business.  At  the  time  of  the  establishment  of  the  company  there 
were  very  few  Utah  stocks  which  were  known  outside  the  State,  but 
with  the  foresight  that  characterized  all  of  his  acts,  he  set  to  work  to 
make  Utah  stocks  known  all  over  the  country.  In  this  he  has  been 
eminently  successful  and  those  in  a  position  to  know  state  authoritatively 
that  Mr.  Pollock  has  done  more  than  any  other  one  man  in  placing 
before  the  Eastern  investing  public  the  many  excellent  propositions 
within  the  boundaries  of  this  State. 

His  place  of  business  on  West  Second  South  Street  is  always  a 
scene  of  great  activity.  Realizing  the  possibilities  of  the  city  and  State 
and  the  necessity  for  things  modern  and  up  to  date,  Mr.  Pollock,  in 
1903,  established  the  first  private  wire  system  in  the  inter-mountain 
country,  and  to-day  there  is  not  an  important  financial  center  in  the 
country  with  which  he  is  not  connected.  Always  alert  and  eager  to 
boost  the  city  of  which  he  is  so  proud,  Mr.  Pollock  has  by  his  efforts 
brought  more  millions  into  the  State  than  any  other  one  man. 

Mr.  Pollock  does  not  bother  in  politics,  but  is  an  ardent  worker  for 
anything  that  is  for  the  building  up  of  the  city.  The  only  office  which 
he  holds  is  the  presidency  of  the  Salt  Lake  Stock  and  Mining  Exchange. 
He  has  held  that  office  for  many  years  and  the  members  of  the 
Exchange  do  not  seem  disposed  to  let  him  retire,  as  he  is  recognized  as 
an  authority  on  all  Western  securities. 

Socially  Mr.  Pollock  is  well  known  and  belongs  to  many  clubs,  both 
here  and  in  California.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta,  Country  Club,  and 
also  of  the  Country  clubs  of  Pasadena  and  Santa  Barbara,  California, 
at  which  places  he  spends  a  portion  of  each  year. 

Although  a  young  man,  Mr.  Pollock  has  been  uniformly  successful  in 
all  of  his  ventures,  and  he  is  to-day  one  of  the  prosperous  men  of 
Salt  Lake.  He  has  a  legion  of  friends  and  they  predict  for  Mr.  Pollock 
a  future  full  of  successes. 

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VAN    D.    SPALDIXG 


VAN  D.  SPALDING 

Among  the  interesting  careers  which  have  ripened  to  perfection  in 
Salt  Lake  City  is  that  of  Van  D.  Spalding,  ranch-owner,  business  man* 
and  mining  expert. 

Mr.  Spalding  was  born  in  Monroe,  Mich.,  in  1863,  his  father  being 
Don  0.  Spalding,  and  his  mother  Anna  Bradford.  His  father  was 
a  prosperous  farmer  in  the  community,  who,  in  1868,  decided  to  move 
westward  to  Montana,  and  Van  D.  Spalding,  then  a  boy  of  five  years, 
made  the  trip  in  his  parents'  company  on  a  steamboat  up  the  Mis- 
souri River.  After  a  journey  of  seven  weeks,  the  little  party  reached 
Fort  Benton,  after  which  the  trip  was  continued  by  team  to  Madison 
County,  where  the  family  located.  From  1868  to  1874  was  spent  by  the 
young  man  in  the  ordinary  pursuit  of  childish  joys,  and  in  the  latter 
year  the  young  man  returned  to  Monroe  County,  where  he  attended 
school,  until  1885.  In  that  year  he  returned  to  the  home  of  his  parents 
and  began  the  business  of  ranching.  Always  interested  in  matters  of 
geology,  his  thoughts  naturally  turned  towards  mining,  although  it 
was  not  until  some  few  years  later  that  he  began  actively  to  interest 
himself  in  the  pursuit  of  wealth  from  this  source. 

He  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  June,  1906,  having  married  just  a 
few  months  previously.  His  family  consists  of  his  wife  and  one  daugh- 
ter, Anna  Ethlyn  Spalding.  He  occupies  a  handsome  residence  at  321 
E  Street,  where  he  frequently  entertains,  and  where,  surrounded  by  his 
family,  Mr.  Spalding  is  to  be  seen  at  his  best. 

Mr.  Spalding  is  heavily  interested  in  the  Spalding-Livingstone 
Investment  Company,  the  Goldfield  Daisy  Mining  Company,  the  Irri- 
gated Lands  Company,  and  is  one  of  Salt  Lake's  prominent  real- 
estate  operators.  Mr.  Spalding  is  a  member  of  the  Elks'  Club  and  the 
Commercial  Club  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

Possessed  of  good  natural  ability,  coupled  with  a  keen  discernment 
and  unusual  far-sightedness,  it  would  be  strange  indeed  if  Mr.  Spal- 
ding's  career  had  been  other  than  the  success  it  has  been.  His  invest- 
ments have  been  the  result  of  close  study  of  conditions,  and  in  every 
case  the  success  achieved  has  justified  Mr.  Spalding 's  conclusions. 
Personally  he  is  popular  in  both  business  and  social  circles,  well  read, 
and  well  posted  on  current  events.  He  is  at  all  times  a  delightful  com- 
panion and  a  staunch-hearted  friend.  Jovial  and  good-humored,  he  has 
at  all  times  shown  himself  to  be  ready  to  help  a  comrade  in  mis- 
fortune, and  there  are  many  among  his  friends  who  predict  for  him  a 
future  which  shall  even  overshadow  his  success  to  date. 


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CHAS.    B.    STEWART 


CHARLES  B.  STEWART 

Charles  Biekley  Stewart  was  born  July  20,  1870,  at  Draper,  Salt  Lake 
Comity,  Utah.  He  is  the  son  of  Isaac  M.  and  Elizabeth  (White)  Stewart.  His 
father  was  a  farmer,  who  came  to  Utah  with  the  early  pioneers,  and  assisted 
materially  in  building  up  the  State,  being  especially  noted  as  a  leader  in  the 
educational  matters  of  the  State,  and  took  great  pride  in  educating  his  children. 
Mr.  Stewart  is  a  descendant  of  Puritan  stock,  and  his  grandfather,  Biekley 
Stewart,  during  the  whole  period  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  carried  his  musket 
in  the  defense  of  his  country. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  spent  his  early  days  on  the  farm  and  attended 
the  district  school  during  the  winter  months ;  he  later  attended  the  State  Univer- 
sity, and  was  a  public  school  teacher  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1890  he  entered 
the  University  of  Michigan  and  graduated  from  the  law  department  of  that  insti- 
tution in  June,  1893,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  the  same  year.  Since  that  time 
he  has  been  constantly  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  being  a  member 
of  the  well-known  law  firm  of  Stewart  &  Stewart  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-six  years,  Mr.  Stewart  was  married  to  Katherine  Rom- 
ney,  daughter  of  George  and  Margaret  Romney.  Miss  Romney  was  known  as  an 
accomplished  musician  and  attained  considerable  prominence  in  musical  circles 
throughout  the  State.  As  a  result  of  their  union  they  have  seven  children,  viz: 
Charles,  Margaret,  Katherine,  Elizabeth,  Isaac,  Josephine  and  George.  Mr. 
Stewart  is  a  lover  of  home,  and  is  a  strong  believer  in  that  oft-repeated  maxim : 
"The  home  is  the  foundation  of  the  State  and  nation,  and  without  purity  of 
home  life  no  nation  can  long  exist." 

As  a  large  sheep-owner,  Mr.  Stewart  brought  much  credit  to  himself  in  1907 
by  bringing  about  a  friendly  relationship  between  the  sheepmen  and  cattlemen 
of  western  Wyoming,  a  fact  that  was  highly  beneficial  to  both  interests.  This 
agreement  promises  to  continue  indefinitely,  and  it  seems  to  have  permanently 
eliminated  the  friction  formerly  prevalent  on  these  ranges. 

Mr.  Stewart  has  always  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  political  and  social  life  of 
the  country,  and  has  held  several  positions  of  trust  in  his  native  State.  He  is  not 
only  a  successful  practitioner  at  the  bar,  but  he  has  attained  considerable  promi- 
nence in  waging  the  battles  of  commerce,  and,  although  comparatively  a  young 
man,  he  is  actively  and  officially  connected  with  some  of  the  most  flourishing 
business  enterprises  in  the  State  of  Utah,  among  them  being  the  Stewart-Hard- 
ing Sheep  Company,  Salt  Lake  &  Jordan  Mill  &  Elevator  Company,  Western 
Wyoming  Land  &  Livestock  Company,  Utah  Coal  &  Supply  Company,  Salt  Lake 
Real  Estate  &  Title  Company,  Summit  County  Mercantile  Company,  Stewart 
Ranch,  and  Crystal  Lime  &  Cement  Company.  He  is  also  connected  with  the 
University  Investment  Company.  Since  its  organization,  he  has  been  secre- 
tary and  director  of  the  Wool  Growers'  Association.  Mr.  Stewart's  residence 
is  at  217  Twelfth  East  Street,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


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F.   C.   RICHMOND 


FREDERICK  C.  RICHMOND 

Of  the  younger  generation  of  prominent  and  progressive  men  of 
the  inter-mountain  States  none  are  more  prominently  identified  with 
the  growth  and  development  of  their  resources  and  industries  than  is 
the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Frederick  C.  Richmond  first  saw  the  light  of  day  at  New  Bedford, 
Massachusetts,  on  the  19th  day  of  November,  1862.  He  is  a  son  of 
James  H.  C.  and  Hannah  Katherine  Courtis  Richmond,  who  were  of 
English  ancestry.  His  father  was  a  whaler  of  New  Bedford,  Massa- 
chusetts, noted  the  world  over  for  that  industry.  Mr.  Richmond 
received  his  early  education  at  private  schools  of  his  native  place,  and 
later  on  at  the  Quaker  College  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island. 

In  1897,  at  the  age  of  thirty-five,  he  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
has  been  prominently  identified  with  business  ever  since.  He  is  the 
president  of  the  F.  C.  Richmond  Machinery  Company,  one  of  the 
most  progressive  and  best  known  concerns  in  the  West.  They  are  job- 
bers of  everything  in  the  line  of  mining  and  power  machinery,  and 
their  business  covers  the  entire  Western  country.  They  are  also  the 
general  agents  for  the  Chicago  Pneumatic  Tool  Company  of  Chicago, 
the  largest  concern  of  its  kind  in  the  world;  also  for  the  Alamo  Manu- 
facturing Company,  manufacturers  of  hoisting  machinery  and  engines ; 
and  for  the  Charles  A.  Schieren  Company  of  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
manufacturers  of  leather  belting,  also  one  of  the  largest  manufacturers 
of  leather  belting  in  the  United  States.  Mr.  Richmond  is  one  of  the 
most  active  and  energetic  of  Utah 's  business  men,  and,  besides  his  many 
connections  with  large  manufacturing  corporations,  he  is  actively 
identified  with  many  mining  corporations  and  their  operation;  among 
them  being  a  director  in  the  Scott  Mines  Company  of  Pioche  and  the 
Tri-Metallic  Mining  Company. 

Mr.  Richmond  was  married  on  July  16,  1885,  to  Miss  Laura  Trelore 
Osborne  of  Shullsburg,  Wisconsin,  and  to  them  have  been  born  three 
children,  Frederick  Courtis,  Laura  Gladys,  and  Marguerite  Richmond. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club,  is  a  Knight  Templar  and 
thirty-second  degree  Mason.  He  resides  at  512  East  Second  South 
Street,  Salt  Lake  City. 


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P.   W.   MADSEN 


PETER  WILHELM  MADSEN 

Peter  W.  Madsen,  one  of  the  representative  merchants,  financiers,  and  pub- 
lic-spirited citizens  of  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  is  a  native  of  Denmark,  where  he 
was  born  November  4,  1852.  His  early  education  was  obtained  at  the  public 
schools  in  Denmark,  and  at  Kiel,  Germany.  He  is  a  son  of  Hanz  Madsen,  who 
was  a  cabinetmaker,  and  of  Louisa  Tatner  Madsen. 

P.  W.  Madsen  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City,  July  23,  1875,  and  on  August  2, 
1875,  he  was  married  to  Elsie  C.  Larsen.  To  them  have  been  born  eight  chil- 
dren, namely :  Richard  W.,  Emil  W.,  Louise  C.,  Laura  M.,  Viggo  R.,  Harry  H., 
Florence  C.  and  Peter  W.  Madsen. 

The  business  interests  of  Mr.  Madsen  are  many  and  important.  He  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Western  Loan  and  Savings  Company,  one  of  the  leading  financial 
institutions  of  Salt  Lake  City.  This  company  was  incorporated  in  1892,  with 
Prank  Armstrong  as  president,  by  Mr.  Madsen,  and  has  a  capital  of  $100,000  and 
a  surplus  of  $22,000,  with  an  authorized  capital  of  $5,000,000,  of  which  $4,000,- 
000  has  been  issued.  The  company  has  paid  ten  per  cent,  on  its  capital  from 
its  beginning,  and  has  been  instrumental  in  the  building  of  thousands  of  homes 
in  Utah  and  Idaho  for  its  members,  who  would  not  own  their  homes  to-day  were 
it  not  for  the  company's  easy  terms.  The  Western  Loan  and  Savings  Company 
is  at  present  earning  for  its  stockholders  from  six  per  cent,  to  twelve  per  cent. 
Mr.  Madsen  gives  his  entire  time  to  this  company,  his  furniture  business  being 
practically  managed  by  his  sons.  Associated  with  Mr.  Madsen  in  the  Western 
Loan  and  Savings  Company  are  the  following  well-known  men  of  Salt  Lake 
City:  Dr.  John  T.  White,  secretary;  Captain  Samuel  G.  Paul,  director;  R.  W. 
Madsen,  vice-president;  James  Engebretsen,  attorney;  and  H.  M.  II.  Lund, 
assistant  secretary. 

Mr.  Madsen  is  also  a  director  in  the  Utah  Commercial  and  Savings  Bank, 
president  of  the  Salt  Lake  Livery  and  Transfer  Company,  president  of  the 
Century  Gold  Mining  and  Milling  Company,  president  of  the  Utah  Stove  and 
Hardware  Company,  and  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Commercial  Club,  and  one 
of  the  first  fifty  to  co-operate  upon  its  organization. 

Mr.  Madsen  first  started  in  the  furniture  business  at  18  South  Main  Street, 
then  at  42  South  Main  Street,  and  in  1884  built  the  present  store.  Mr.  Madsen 
was  one  of  the  original  organizers  of  the  Utah  Commercial  and  Savings  Bank,  and 
has  been  identified  with  its  interests  ever  since.  He  was  also  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Lehi  Commercial  Bank,  of  which  he  was  a  director  for  many  years.  He 
was  also  an  organizer  of  the  Springville  Banking  Company,  of  which  he  is  now  a 
director.  He  was  also  organizer  of  Mt.  Pleasant  Commercial  and  Savings  Bank, 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Western  Shoe  and  Dry  Goods  Company,  and  the 
Utah  Mattress  Manufacturing  Company.  The  furniture  company  of  P.  W.  Mad- 
sen  carries  one  of  the  largest  stocks  of  any  house  west  of  Denver.  The  highest 
standard  of  excellence  is  consistently  maintained  by  Mr.  Madsen,  who  does  all 
his  own  buying,  and  twice  a  year  visits  the  furniture  manufacturing  centers 
for  that  purpose. 


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W.    P.    NOBLE 


WORDEN  P.  NOBLE 

Worden  P.  Noble  was  born  December  24,  1847,  in  Sacketts  Harbor,  New 
York,  his  father,  William  Noble,  a  farmer;  his  mother,  Jane  A.  Payne.  Mr. 
Noble  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  in  the  Bryant  &  Stratton  College 
at  Watertown,  New  York. 

He  came  West  late  in  1865,  and  reached  Omaha,  Nebraska,  in  1866,  where  he 
was  employed  as  clerk  in  the  Herndon  Hotel,  then  the  Union  Pacific  headquar- 
ters. In  1867  he  went  to  Fort  Laramie  and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 
for  one  year.  He  then  moved  to  South  Pass,  Wyoming,  and  went  into  the 
freighting  business,  running  ox-teams  for  nine  years. 

It  was  in  South  Pass  he  met  Margaret  Halloran,  whom  he  married  there  in 
1869,  and  who  has  borne  him  four  children,  all  of  them  living.  In  the  order  of 
their  birth  they  are,  Ida,  Fred,  Edith  and  Margaret.  He  disposed  of  his  freight- 
ing outfit  at  a  big  figure,  and  put  the  entire  fortune  in  sheep  and  cattle,  running 
them  successfully  for  twenty  years,  during  all  of  which  time  he  kept  up  an  active 
trade  with  the  Shoshone  Indians,  selling  them  what  they  needed  at  frontier 
prices,  and  getting  otter  skins,  beaver,  fox,  bear,  and  other  valuable  pelts,  furs 
and  hides,  including  the  buffalo,  at  his  own  prices. 

He  brought  his  family  to  Salt  Lake  in  November,  1883,  established  them  in 
a  home  here,  and  went  back  to  Wyoming,  establishing  the  Bank  of  Noble  at 
Lander,  Wyoming,  which  is  still  running,  and  of  which  he  is  president.  At  the 
same  place,  Noble  &  Lane  have  a  big  general  merchandise  store,  and  another  at 
No  wood  by  Noble  &  Bragg,  the  same  company  handling  50,000  sheep.  Noble 
and  Carmody  are  running  another  bunch  of  20,000  sheep  near  Lander,  Wyoming. 
He  is  president  of  the  Clover  Valley  Land  &  Live  Stock  Company,  the  ranch 
being  at  Golconda,  Nevada.  His  son,  Fred  Noble,  is  the  manager  of  the  ranch, 
the  cattle  and  30,000  sheep.  There  are  a  number  of  prominent  Salt  Lake  men 
who  are  interested  as  shareholders  with  Mr.  Noble  in  this  enterprise.  He  is 
the  owner  of  much  very  valuable  improved  and  unimproved  real  estate  in  Salt 
Lake,  and  is  vice-president  of  the  Continental  National  Bank,  the  successor  of 
the  Commercial  National  Bank. 

Mr.  Noble  was  a  member  of  the  legislature  of  Wyoming  from  Lander  County 
in  1877,  and  was  county  commissioner  of  Sweetwater  County  for  eight  years. 
When  he  returned  to  Salt  Lake  he  was  elected  to  the  chairmanship  of  the  Board 
of  Public  Works  in  1892  for  one  term.  Under  the  second  Liberal  Party  admin- 
istration, after  the  Police  and  Fire  Commission  had  been  created,  he  was  elected 
to  the  chairmanship,  and  held  that  office  until  the  commission  was  dissolved  by 
legislative  enactment.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club  and  the  Salt  Lake  Com- 
mercial Club. 

Mrs.  Noble  died  about  twelve  years  ago.  The  two  eldest  daughters  are  mar- 
ried, Ida  to  L.  C.  Robinson,  traveling  auditor  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Railroad,  and  Edith  to  Robert  G.  Smith  of  the  Continental  National  Bank,  until 
recently  the  Commercial  National  Bank.  Margaret,  the  youngest,  is  unmarried. 

The  home  of  W.  P.  Noble  and  his  family  is  at  629  East  Brigham  Street. 


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W.    C.    OREM 


WALTER  C.  OREM 

Walter  C.  Orem,  one  of  the  best  known  mining  operators  in  Utah, 
is  a  native  of  Missouri,  and  was  born  in  Ray  County,  May  23,  1873. 
His  father,  A.  J.  Orem,  was  a  school-teacher,  and  of  old  English  ances- 
try, his  ancestors  coming  to  this  country  in  the  renowned  "Mayflower." 
His  mother,  who  was  Martha  A.  Leabo,  was  also  of  English  ances- 
try. Mr.  Orem  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Kansas  City,  finishing 
his  schooling  at  seventeen,  at  which  age  he  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1890.  His  first  occupation  was  that  of  a  traveling  salesman  for  a  dry- 
goods  house,  and  there  he  remained  for  seven  years.  This  occupation 
did  not  satisfy  his  ambition  and  he  entered  the  mining  industry,  which, 
with  its  seemingly  unlimited  possibilities,  appealed  to  him.  With  others 
he  soon  secured  an  interest  in  the  Red  Wing  Mine,  a  copper  and  lead 
property  at  Bingham,  and  about  two  years  later  he  took  the  manage- 
ment of  the  mine,  together  with  the  York  properties,  both  of  which  had 
a  past  history  and  a  fair  productive  record,  but  there  was  little  in 
sight  at  that  time.  The  York  was  later  absorbed  with  a  number  of 
surrounding  properties  and  is  now  well  known  as  the  Utah  Apex  Mine, 
of  which  he  was  general  manager  for  the  first  six  years  of  its  existence, 
resigning  this  position  to  give  his  time  to  properties  in  which  he  had  a 
larger  personal  interest.  The  plans  of  expansion  and  development 
were  carried  out  by  Mr.  Orem. 

Mr.  W.  C.  Orem  is  vice-president  of  and  has  charge  of  the  operating 
department  of  the  firm  of  A.  J.  Orem  &  Co.,  who  are  successful  mining 
operators  on  quite  a  large  scale  throughout  the  Western  States,  and 
they  have  as  associates  many  prominent  capitalists  in  New  York,  Bos- 
ton, and  London,  England.  The  company  now  owns  and  controls  large 
properties  at  Yerington,  Nevada,  chief  of  which  is  the  Nevada-Douglas 
Copper  Company,  where  they  are  developing  and  producing  much  high 
grade  copper  ore.  Of  this  the  late  J.  D.  Wood  was  president.  Con- 
servative experts  agree  that  the  present  developed  ore  in  these  prop- 
erties will  go  into  the  millions.  Mr.  Orem  is  largely  interested  in 
the  Nevada-Douglas  Copper  Company,  of  which  he  is  general  manager ; 
and  is  also  interested  in  many  other  mining  properties  in  the  inter- 
mountain  States. 

Mr.  Orem  was  married  at  Wapello,  Idaho,  December  19,  1894,  to 
Miss  Mabel  Emery,  and  to  them  have  been  born  four  children :  William 
Walter,  Gladys  M.,  Margaret  R.,  and  Albert  E.  Orem.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Commercial  Club,  and  resides  at  663  Third  Avenue,  Salt 
Lake  City. 


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E.    O.    LEE 


Eddy  Orland  Lee,  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  Salt  Lake  City  and 
a  member  of  the  prominent  and  successful  law  firm  of  Booth,  Lee  & 
Badger,  is  a  native  of  Canada,  and  was  born  at  Hatley  Village,  Prov- 
ince of  Quebec,  September  16,  1855.  His  parents  were  Josiah  Lee, 
who  was  a  farmer  by  vocation,  and  Eockselana  (Davis)  Lee,  who  was 
of  old  Yankee  Revolutionary  stock. 

Mr.  Lee 's  family  moved  to  Illinois  in  1866,  where  young  Lee  worked 
in  the  summer  months  and  attended  school  in  the  winter,  until  1871, 
when  he  went  to  high  school  at  Mount  Carroll,  Illinois,  riding  seven 
miles  and  back  each  day  for  two  years.  In  1873  his  father  sold  the  farm 
and  young  Lee  was  sent  to  the  Illinois  State  University,  at  Champaign, 
Illinois,  from  which  institution  he  graduated  in  1878,  after  missing 
one  year,  during  which  time  he  taught  school  and  thereby  earned 
money  with  which  to  complete  his  education. 

From  1878  to  1879  he  taught  school  at  Elizabeth,  111.  He  next 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  James  Shaw,  ex-Speaker  of  the  House 
of  Representatives  of  Illinois,  at  Mount  Carroll,  where  he  remained 
until  March,  1881,  at  which  time  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He 
practised  in  Illinois  courts  until  1885,  and  then  went  to  Sidney, 
Nebraska,  where  he  followed  his  profession  until  January,  1891,  when 
he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City.  After  his  arrival  he  formed  the  law  firm  of 
Lee  &  Post.  In  1892  the  firm  of  Booth,  Lee  &  Gray  was  formed  and 
continued  until  the  fall  of  1898,  at  which  time  Mr.  Gray  withdrew,  and 
M.  L.  Ritchie  was  admitted  and  remained  until  his  elevation  to  the 
bench,  when  he  retired,  in  1905,  and  the  present  firm  of  Booth,  Lee  & 
Badger  was  formed. 

Mr.  Lee  was  married  August  20,  1884,  to  Miss  Jennie  Cummings, 
a  native  of  Illinois.  They  reside  at  963  East  South  Temple  Street, 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  He  is  a  member  of  the  University  and  Com- 
mercial clubs,  the  Odd  Fellows,  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Methodist 
Church. 


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WILL    G.    FARRELL 


WILLIAM  GEORGE  FARRELL 

"Will  G.  Farrell,  one  of  the  most  successful  life  insurance  men  in  the  Western 
country,  was  born  in  Logan,  Cache  County,  Utah,  May  24,  1864,  and  has  been  a 
life-long  resident  of  this  State. 

His  father,  George  Lionel  Farrell,  was  a  native  of  England,  a  descendant 
of  the  McFarrells  of  Scotland.  He  emigrated  in  his  youth  to  America  with  his 
mother  and  three  sisters,  first  going  to  Iowa,  and  later  settling  in  Utah,  where  he 
became  the  original  "dry  farmer"  and  president  of  the  Farmers'  Union  in  Cache 
County,  Utah,  being  the  first  man  to  be  successful  with  that  form  of  farming 
which  has  since  grown  to  marvelous  proportions,  and  is  indispensable  in  the  inter- 
mountain  country. 

His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  a  well-to-do  Swedish  mechanic  and  inventor, 
Solomon  Lunberg,  who  made  his  home  in  Utah  in  1860.  The  elder  Farrell  first 
conceived  the  idea  that  the  rich  lands  of  Utah  could  be  made  to  produce  crops 
by  proper  tilling  without  irrigation,  and  he  set  about  to  prove  it,  and  did.  And 
he  lived  to  see  the  arid  wastes  displace  the  watered  fields,  and  Utah  leading  out 
to  teach  Western  civilization  to  utilize  her  dry  and  fruitless  wastes. 

Will  G.  Farrell  was  educated  at  the  University  of  Deseret,  now  the  Uni- 
versity of  Utah,  where  he  took  the  normal  course,  having  passed  the  examination 
in  1880.  After  graduation  his  first  occupation  was  as  clerk  to  his  father  in  the 
bishop's  storehouse  of  the  Mormon  Church  at  Logan,  Utah.  Later  he  held  the 
position  of  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Oneida  Mercantile  Union  of  Franklin, 
Idaho.  He  was  recorder  of  deeds  at  Cache  County  for  several  years,  and  up  to 
1896  was  official  abstractor  of  land  titles  in  the  same  county.  He  next  became 
traveling  auditor  for  the  Co-operative  Wagon  and  Machine  Company,  and 
later  held  the  same  position  with  the  Studebaker  Bros.  Company,  of  Utah.  He 
had  studied  insurance  a  great  deal,  and  he  decided  next  to  enter  that  field  and 
turned  his  attention  in  that  direction,  achieving  such  success  as  to  attract  the 
attention  of  the  managers  of  the  Penn  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Phila- 
delphia, who,  in  1904,  offered  him  a  co-partnership  in  the  general  agency  for 
Utah,  and  he  has  successfully  represented  that  company  ever  since.  He  devotes 
most  of  his  time  to  life-insurance  underwriting,  and  in  1907  his  agency  stood 
third  in  production,  of  legal-reserve  Eastern  companies  doing  business  in  Utah. 

Mr.  Farrell  is  also  secretary  and  treasurer  and  director  of  the  losepa  Agricul- 
tural and  Stock  Company,  a  Utah  corporation ;  and  vice-president  and  director 
of  the  George  L.  Farrell  Corporation,  "Dry  Farmers,"  also  a  Utah  corporation. 
He  attends  to  the  business  end  of  both  companies. 

Mr.  Farrell  held  the  position  of  United  States  court  commissioner  under 
President  Grover  Cleveland.  Mr.  Farrell  spent  several  years  in  the  Sandwich 
Islands,  and  speaks  the  Hawaiian  language.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  B.  P.  0.  Elks,  president  of  the  Utah  Association  Life  Underwriters, 
chairman  Executive  Committee  of  the  Hawaiian  Missionary  Society,  and  direc- 
tor of  the  Civic  Improvement  League,  all  of  Salt  Lake  City.  Mr.  Farrell  was 
married  to  Miss  Florence  Nightingale  Caine,  a  daughter  of  Hon.  John  T.  and 
Margaret  N.  Caine.  They  have  two  children,  William  Caine  Farrell  and  Fred- 
erick Nightingale  Farrell. 


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HAKRY   S.   JOSEPH 


H.  S.  JOSEPH 

One  of  the  best-known  mining  men  in  Utah,  and  in  fact  in  the  entire  inter- 
mountain  region,  is  Harry  Sheridan  Joseph,  who  first  saw  the  light  of  day  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  June  14,  1866.  His  father  was  Solomon  Joseph,  a  well-known 
merchant  of  Cincinnati,  and  his  mother  Augusta  Bamberger  Joseph.  The  young 
man  received  his  earlier  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  State,  and 
later  attended  and  graduated  from  the  University  of  Cincinnati,  with  degree  of 
civil  engineer.  Energetic,  industrious  and  quick  to  learn,  the  young  man  gave 
early  promise  of  a  successful  career. 

At  a  comparatively  early  age,  he  decided  upon  the  West  as  a  field  for  future 
endeavor,  and  in  1887  he  settled  upon  Utah,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  on  June  10th 
of  that  year.  On  February  21,  1894,  he  was  married  and  since  has  occupied  a 
handsome  residence  where  he  frequently  keeps  open  house  for  his  friends  at  No. 
80  H  Street.  Up  to  1893  Mr.  Joseph  was  associated  with  Simon  Bamberger  as 
chief  engineer  of  the  railroad  and  other  enterprises. 

Mr.  Joseph  has  since  been  actively  engaged  in  mining,  but  his  versatile  train- 
ing and  wide  knowledge  of  men  and  events  soon  led  him  into  public  life,  which 
held  for  him  always  a  remarkable  attraction.  He  has  held  the  position  of  county 
surveyor  of  Salt  Lake  County  and  also  of  Davis  County,  has  served  two  terms 
in  the  Utah  legislature,  the  last  of  which  was  concluded  in  1907  with  Mr.  Joseph 
as  speaker  of  the  lower  house.  For  some  time  past  he  also  has  been  president  of 
the  State  Industrial  School  Board  and  for  a  number  of  years  past  has  been 
actively  connected  with  the  Salt  Lake  Stock  and  Mining  Exchange,  as  well  as 
being  a  member  of  the  Elks  Club,  the  Commercial  Club  and  the  recently  formed 
Ohio  Society,  in  the  last  of  which  he  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  moving  spirits. 

In  the  mining  world  Mr.  Joseph  holds  an  enviable  position  for  his  numerous 
signal  successes  in  the  face  of  difficulties  which  might  well  have  daunted  a  hardier 
spirit,  among  them  being  the  Carisa,  Lower  Mammoth  and  Beck  Tunnel  of  the 
Tintic  District.  Notable  among  the  companies  in  which  he  is  interested  is  the 
Silver  Shield  Mining  and  Milling  Company,  a  property  which  is  regarded  as 
having  one  of  the  most  promising  futures  of  any  mine  in  Bingham.  Located  just 
south  of  the  great  United  States  Mine,  the  same  geological  conditions  which 
obtain  in  that  well-known  producer  are  also  apparent  in  the  Silver  Shield.  Mr. 
Joseph  is  heavily  interested  in  a  number  of  Park -City  properties,  as  well  as  in 
the  Tintic  District  and  Bingham,  in  addition  to  controlling  a  number  of  valuable 
interests  in  the  Yerington  and  Goldfield  districts  of  Nevada. 

Up  to  now  Mr.  Joseph's  efforts  have  been  attended  with  marked  success,  but 
there  are  those  among  his  friends  who  do  not  hesitate  to  predict  for  him  an  even 
greater  future.  Possessed  of  a  jovial,  whole-souled  manner  and  a  disposition 
of  which  generosity  and  public-spiritedness  form  the  keynote,  Mr.  Joseph  is  at 
once  a  witty  and  a  clever  conversationalist  and  a  man  of  experience  and  excep- 
tional judgment. 


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F.   E.    MABCY 


FEANK  E.  MAECY 

Frank  E.  Marcy  was  born  at  Newfane,  Vermont,  June  llth,  1872. 
His  father  was  Rodney  Marcy  and  his  mother  Eosette  Wellman  Marcy. 

The  young  man  was  educated  in  the  district  schools  of  his  native 
State  and  later  attended  the  University  of  Kansas,  from  which  insti- 
tution he  in  due  time  graduated.  At  an  early  age  he  gave  promise  of 
marked  ability  along  engineering  lines  and  from  the  time  he  first 
formed  a  connection  with  the  Amalgamated  Copper  Company  of  Butte, 
in  1900,  his  rise  has  been  steady  and  rapid.  During  the  time  he  was 
with  this  company  he  held  many  important  engineering  posts  and 
along  certain  lines  achieved  a  splendid  reputation  for  resourcefulness 
and  ability  as  an  engineer.  In  1905  he  joined  the  Allis-Chalmers  Com- 
pany, for  which  concern  he  is  at  present  manager  of  the  Salt  Lake  and 
Spokane  offices.  The  territory  includes  the  States  of  Utah,  Nevada, 
Idaho,  Montana,  eastern  Oregon,  Washington,  and  a  part  of  Wyoming. 
For  the  past  few  years  he  has  maintained  his  headquarters  at  Salt 
Lake  City. 

The  wonderful  record  of  the  Allis-Chalmers  Company  in  the  West 
is  generally  admitted  to  be  due,  to  a  large  extent,  to  the  indefatigable 
efforts  of  Mr.  Marcy.  Always  well  known,  the  company  has  built 
up  a  business  throughout  the  Western  States  which,  comparatively 
speaking,  is  little  short  of  remarkable.  Always  interested  in  the 
mechanical  side  of  his  profession,  Mr.  Marcy  has  worked  early  and 
late  for  the  company  which  he  represents  and  the  result  achieved  is 
not  out  of  proportion  to  the  effort  put  forth. 

The  Allis-Chalmers  Company  maintains  a  heavy  stock  of  machinery 
in  Salt  Lake  and  has  traveling  and  other  representatives  constantly  in 
the  field.  Through  close  application  and  strict  attention  to  business  as 
well  as  equitable  dealing  and  business-like  methods,  the  company  has 
established  a  reputation  for  its  goods  which  goes  far  to  account  for  its 
successful  record  in  the  West.  It  is  known  and  regarded  as  one  of  the 
prominent  business  institutions  of  Salt  Lake  and  as  such  has  always 
occupied  a  foremost  place  in  the  business  life  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Marcy  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club  and  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Engineers,  and  has  always  been  foremost  in  every  move- 
ment looking  to  the  upbuilding  of  his  chosen  city.  He  has  done  much 
to  improve  his  company 's  products,  and  some  of  the  most  desirable  lines 
of  machinery  were  invented  and  designed  by  him. 

Well  educated,  well  read,  and  of  a  pleasing  personality,  Mr.  Marcy 
is  a  business  man  of  high  order  and  ability.  His  success  in  life  so  far 
has  been  entirely  due  to  his  own  efforts  and  those  who  know  him  do 
not  hesitate  to  predict  a  still  more  brilliant  future. 

249 


W.  E.  HUBBAKD 


WILLIAM  E.  HUBB    RD 

William  E.  Hubbard,  the  energetic  manager  and  treasurer  of  the 
Hubbard  Investment  Company  of  Salt  Lake  City,  belongs  to  that  type 
of  the  successful  men  who  make  and  upbuild  communities.  And  it  is 
due  to  men  of  the  character  and  ability  possessed  by  Mr.  Hubbard  that 
such  rapid  strides  in  real  estate  and  building  are  made. 

Of  English  descent  on  the  paternal  side,  Mr.  Hubbard  is  a  son  of 
Solomon  and  Mary  Hubbard,  and  was  born  at  Nora,  Illinois,  October 
21,  1862.  His  mother  was  a  native  of  Indiana.  Young  Hubbard  was 
sent  to  school  at  an  early  age,  and  subsequently  attended  Earlham 
College  at  Richmond,  Indiana,  and  later  the  Rush  Medical  College  at 
Chicago,  Illinois.  It  was  his  intention  to  follow  the  medical  profession, 
but  his  natural  inclination  turned  to  real  estate,  perhaps  imbibing  his 
preference  in  that  direction  from  having  given  his  earlier  attention 
to  farming.  Later  on  he  added  mining  to  his  life  work,  and  in  both 
mining  and  real  estate  he  has  been  very  successful.  His  mining  opera- 
tions have  been  quite  extensive,  but  chiefly  confined  to  Bingham,  Ophir, 
and  Tintic  districts ;  while  Salt  Lake  City  has  been  his  real  estate  field 
of  activity. 

Mr.  Hubbard  is  an  up-to-date  hustling  man  of  affairs,  and  besides 
being  manager  and  treasurer  of  the  Hubbard  Investment  Company,  he 
is  a  director  in  the  Lion  Hill  Consolidated  Mining  Company,  the  Bing- 
ham Central  Standard  Company,  president  of  the  Bingham-Buttb 
Consolidated  Mining  Company,  vice-president  of  the  West  Temple 
Realty  Company,  president  of  the  Salt  Lake  Realty  Owners'  Company, 
and  is  interested  in  numerous  other  business  enterprises  of  import- 
ance. 

Mr.  Hubbard  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club,  B.  P.  0.  E.,  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Masonic  Fraternity,  and  the  Mystic  Shriners. 
He  is  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the  Real  Estate  Association, 
and  is  considered  an  expert  on  anything  pertaining  to  real  estate  and 
investment,  of  which  he  has  made  a  study  for  years.  His  advice  is  often 
asked  in  extensive  real  estate  deals,  and  his  judgment  is  unerring.  He 
is  an  enthusiastic  advocate  of  Salt  Lake  realty,  a  believer  in  the  pros- 
perous  future  of  the  city,  for  the  promotion  of  which  he  is  always 
working  faithfully  and  conscientiously.  He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the 
best-informed  men  on  ground  and  structure  values  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  he  is  also  a  prominent  factor  in  mining  circles. 


251 


M.    R.    EVANS 


MORRIS  R.  EVANS 

Among  the  mining  men  of  Salt  Lake  City  whose  efforts  have  been 
attended  with  signal  success  is  Morris  R.  Evans,  known  as  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  the  Deep  Creek  mining  district  of  the  State  and  prominently 
identified  with  many  of  the  prominent  ore  producing  camps. 

Mr.  Evans  was  born  August  24th,  1849,  at  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  his 
parents  being  Morrison  W.  and  Lucinda  A.  Evans.  His  father  was 
for  years  a  prominent  manufacturer  of  Lockport  and  later  carried  on 
a  private  banking  business,  making  a  specialty  of  bonds  and  mortgages. 

Mr.  Evans  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  from  San  Francisco  on  March  9th, 
1871,  and  three  years  later,  in  October,  1874,  was  married  to  Alice  A. 
Vincent  of  Salt  Lake  City.  The  union  has  been  a  happy  one  in  every 
respect  and  the  family  consists  of  six  children,  namely:  Charles  M., 
Lucinda  C.,  Agnes  E.,  William  N.,  Henry  S.,  and  Chester  0.  Evans. 

While  for  a  number  of  years  past  Mr.  Evans  has  made  his  head- 
quarters in  Salt  Lake  City,  he  has  also  resided  in  a  number  of  ^points 
in  the  State  and  has  traveled  over  practically  all  of  it.  In  1871-2  he 
gave  his  full  time  and  attention  to  mining,  but  a  year  later  settled  at 
Ashley  Fork  and  in  that  vicinity  was  engaged  in  the  cattle  raising 
business  individually  for  ten  years.  For  a  short  time  he  was  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Carter  Evans  &  Co.  in  this  line,  and  from  1882  was  for 
five  years  the  principal  partner  in  the  firm  of  Evans  &  Spencer,  which 
firm  he  succeeded  and  afterwards  continued  the  business  for  thirteen 
years. 

It  was  about  1890  when  Mr.  Evans  first  turned  his  attention  to  the 
Deep  Creek  Mining  District.  A  number  of  previous  visits  had  satis- 
fied him  of  the  possibilities  of  the  region  and  a  thorough  exploration 
convinced  him  of  the  splendid  results  which  might  eventually  be 
expected  to  crown  his  efforts.  In  this  he  was  not  disappointed  and 
at  this  time  his  name  is  prominently  identified  with  the  district  as 
perhaps  its  foremost  pioneer  and  one  of  its  most  prominent  mine  oper- 
ators. 

In  other  localities,  notably  at  Chaf ey,  Nevada,  in  a  property  with 
W.  J.  Craig,  Mr.  Evans  has  been  equally  successful  as  a  mine  operator, 
and  his  name  is  prominently  identified  with  several  of  the  best-known 
mining  properties  of  the  State.  Notwithstanding  his  close  attention  to 
the  mining  business  he  has  yet  found  time  to  interest  himself  in  other 
lines  and  in  nearly  all  of  his  ventures  he  has  been  uniformly  successful. 

Mr.  Evans  occupies  a  beautifully  situated  residence  at  701  South 
Temple  Street.  He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Salt  Lake  Commer- 
cial Club  and  personally  has  a  host  of  friends  and  few  enemies.  He 
has  always  shown  himself  willing  to  help  a  fellow  being  in  distress  or 
take  a  stand  against  anything  which  did  not  fully  come  up  to  his  own 
rock-bound  ideas  of  justice  and  honesty.  Socially  and  in  a  business 
way  he  has  reaped  the  rewards  of  his  industry  and  integrity  and  the 
future  for  him  holds  only  bright  promises  of  new  fields  and  a  yet 
greater  measure  of  success. 

253 


W.  M.    BRADLEY 


WILLIAM  MALLORY  BRADLEY 

A  local  attorney  with  an  enviable  record  is  William  Mallory  Brad- 
ley, who  came  to  Utah  in  September,  1883,  and  has  since  made  his 
headquarters  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Mr.  Bradley  is  a  graduate  of  the 
law  school  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin  of  the  class  of  '83  and  imme- 
diately upon  gaining  possession  of  his  sheepskin  he  turned  his  face  to 
the  West,  arriving  here  a  few  months  later.  Prior  to  beginning  the  study 
of  law  he  was  educated  at  the  Elkhorn  high  school  of  Elkhorn,  Wis- 
consin. 

He  is  a  son  of  Henry  and  N.  Jane  Bradley,  the  former  of  whom  at 
the  ripe  old  age  of  83  years  is  still  hale  and  hearty.  In  December,  1886, 
Mr.  Bradley,  then  a  comparatively  young  man,  was  married  to  Miss 
Luella  M.  Brewster  and  the  couple  has  since  resided  almost  continuously 
at  number  12  Fourth  East  Street.  Three  children  have  blessed  the 
union,  Henry  F.,  Brewster  M.,  and  Allen  P.  Bradley. 

While  for  many  years  prominently  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
law,  Mr.  Bradley  has  always  been  closely  interested  in  various  mining 
operations  throughout  this  State  and  Nevada,  and  is  now  prominently 
identified  with  such  well-known  producers  as  the  Daly- Judge  Mining 
Company,  the  Mason  Valley  Mines  Company  and  a  number  of  others. 
In  addition  to  this  he  owns  shares  in  various  mining  ventures  many  of 
which  give  promise  of  a  splendid  future. 

Both  socially  and  in  a  business  way,  Mr.  Bradley  has  always  occu- 
pied a  prominent  place  in  Salt  Lake  City.  While  realizing  to  the  full 
the  vastness  of  the  field  offered  by  Utah  politics  and  the  possibilities 
of  a  splendid  distinction  to  a  man  of  his  ability  and  experience,  Mr. 
Bradley  has  always  held  aloof  from  the  political  game  and  although 
many  times  solicited  has  always  consistently  declined  to  be  a  candidate 
for  office  of  any  kind.  In  a  business  way  in  his  chosen  walk  of  life 
he  has  been  successful  to  a  degree  and  in  a  social  sense  no  less  so.  For 
some  years  past  he  has  been  among  the  prominent  clubmen  of  the  city 
and  at  this  time  his  name  appears  on  the  membership  rolls  of  the  Alta, 
the  Commercial,  the  University  and  the  Rocky  Mountain  clubs  as  well 
as  the  Bear  River  Duck  Club  and  others.  Personally,  Mr.  Bradley 
has  nearly  all  the  qualities  which  make  for  success.  Hale  and  hearty 
in  mind  and  body,  his  cheery  manner  is  a  delight  to  his  acquaintances 
and  a  panacea  for  all  ills  among  his  friends.  Possessing  a  mind  of 
unusual  power  he  has  found  time  to  assimilate  and  room  to  store  a 
fund  of  knowledge  of  remarkable  range  and  scope. 

While  prominent  in  club  and  social  life,  it  is  in  his  own  home,  sur- 
rounded by  his  family,  that  Mr.  Bradley  is  seen  at  his  best.  In  this 
as  in  everything  else  Dame  Fortune  has  been  kind,  and  fronTthe  stand- 
point of  a  still  comparatively  young  man  he  is  enabled  to  look  out  upon 
a  past  replete  with  the  successes  of  life  and  a  future  serene  in  its 
promise  of  even  better  things  to  come. 

255 


A.    J.    SETTLES 


ALFRED  J.  BETTLES 

Alfred  J.  Bettles  is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  competent 
mining  men  in  the 'entire  inter-mountain  country.  He  is  associated  with 
the  largest  and  most  productive  mining  enterprise  in  Utah  in  an  active 
and  official  capacity;  as  mill  manager  of  the  Boston  Consolidated  he 
has  his  hands  full,  and  his  services  are  invaluable  to  that  importtuit 
company.  Mr.  Bettles  is  of  English  birth,  having  been  born  in  Bedford- 
shire, England,  July  14,  1856,  a  son  of  John  and  Charlotte  Dixie  Bet- 
ties.  His  father  was  a  farmer.  Young  Bettles  received  his  early 
education  in  the  common  schools  of  Ontario,  Canada,  and  his  knowledge 
of  metallurgy  and  mining  was  obtained  by  his  own  efforts,  never  hav- 
ing attended  any  academy  or  college  of  mines  for  that  purpose.  He 
acquired  a  practical  knowledge  of  metallurgy,  chemistry  and  assaying, 
and  to-day  is  one  of  the  foremost  in  his  line  in  the  inter-mountain 
country. 

When  a  boy  he  was  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  for  seven 
years  at  Chatham,  Ontario,  and  in  1881  he  went  to  Colorado  and  com- 
menced working  on  mill  construction.  It  was  while  thus  engaged  that 
he  became  interested  in  the  study  of  metallurgy  and  mining.  And, 
being  ambitious  to  succeed,  he  devoted  all  of  his  spare  time  from  then 
on  to  those  particular  studies,  and  with  what  success  we  in  Utah  all 
know.  In  1884  Mr.  Bettles  went  to  Montana,  and  in  1885  he  took 
charge  of  the  Granite  Mountain  Mining  Company's  reduction  works, 
and  there  remained  until  1897,  when  he  came  to  Utah.  While  at  the 
Granite  Mountain  reduction  works  he  had  complete  charge  of  their 
various  reduction  plants  for  the  treatment  of  gold  and  silver  ores. 

Mr.  Bettles  is  connected  actively  and  officially  with  various  mining 
companies  in  Utah,  Nevada  and  British  Columbia,  also  with  the  United 
Grocery  Company  of  Salt  Lake;  Bettles,  Mathez  &  Co.,  assayers  and 
chemists ;  and  has  many  ranch  interests  in  Alberta,  Canada.  Mr.  Bet- 
ties  designed  and  superintended  the  construction  of  the  large  con- 
centrator in  connection  with  the  Newhouse  Mines  and  Smelters  at  New- 
house,  Utah,  and  also  the  concentrator  of  the  Boston  Consolidated 
Company  which  is  one  of  the  largest  plants  of  its  kind  in  the  West. 

Mr.  Bettles  was  married  in  Colorado  in  1883,  to  Miss  Grace  A. 
Kennedy  of  Michigan,  and  to  them  have  been  born  six  children,  four 
of  whom  are  living;  namely:  Charlotte  May  (Catrow),  Grace,  Gordon 
M.,  and  Helen.  Mr.  Bettles  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club,  Commercial 
Club,  Engineers '  Society  of  Utah,  and  of  the  Masonic  Lodge  of  Granite 
Mountain.  He  resides  in  a  handsome  residence  at  53  Sixth  East  Street, 
Salt  Lake  City. 


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E.  J.  EVANS 


RICHARD  J.  EVANS 

One  of  Utah 's  most  successful  and  progressive  mining  operators  is  Richard  J. 
Evans,  who  was  born  at  Rockland,  Ontonagon  County,  Michigan,  January  27, 
1865.  His  father,  James  Evans,  a  prosperous  mining  man,  and  his  mother, 
Eliza  Gundry  Evans,  were  both  of  English  ancestry  and  settled  in  Michigan 
at  an  early  age.  Mr.  Evans  senior  organized  the  first  working  men's  club  in 
Calumet,  which  is  now  one  of  the  wealthiest  clubs  in  the  world,  and  for  many 
years  was  one  of  its  Executive  Committee,  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  His  wife, 
the  mother  of  our  subject,  was  before  her  marriage  Miss  Eliza  Gundry,  a  native 
of  England,  her  father  being  a  prosperous  foundry  man  of  that  country. 

Our  subject  obtained  his  early  scholastic  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
Calumet,  and  in  1888  gave  up,  for  a  time,  his  mining  operations  and  entered  the 
International  Business  College  at  Saginaw,  Michigan,  from  which  institution 
he  graduated,  and  in  1891  took  charge  of  the  college  as  manager.  After  severing 
his  connection  with  the  college,  he  took  charge  of  the  Saginaw  "Courier-Herald," 
a  Republican  paper.  He  has  to  his  name  the  credit  of  running  the  first  exclusive 
newspaper  train  across  the  State  of  Michigan.  He  was  in  charge  of  the  "Courier- 
Herald"  for  five  years,  at  which  time  he  decided  to  follow  the  mining  business, 
and  with  that  object  in  view  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  commenced  opera- 
tions, and  was  uniformly  successful  from  the  outset. 

At  the  age  of  sixteen  young  Evans  entered  the  employ  of  the  Calumet  and 
Hecla  mines,  conceded  to  be  the  most  perfectly  developed  and  richest  copper 
mines  in  the  world.  It  was  here  that  Mr.  Evans  received  his  practical  knowledge 
of  mining,  which  afterwards  made  him  so  successful  in  his  various  undertakings. 
He  served  his  apprenticeship,  working  with  pick  and  shovel,  and  it  was  the 
practical  lessons  learned  as  a  common  miner  that  have  qualified  him  so  well  to 
judge  the  real  value  of  a  mine. 

He  successfully  promoted  the  American  Falls  Canal  and  Power  Company, 
at  Snake  River,  Idaho,  from  1902  to  1904,  which  is  to-day  in  active  operation 
and  one  of  Idaho's  important  industries.  Mr.  Evans  is  president  of  the  Inter- 
Mountain  Securities  Company  of  Salt  Lake  City,  the  Seven  Troughs  Mining 
Company,  of  Seven  Troughs,  Nevada,  and  is  interested  in  the  Federal  Ely  Cop- 
per Company,  of  Ely,  Nevada.  He  is  also  actively  identified  with  the  Seven 
Troughs  Coalition  Mining  Company,  the  Tintic  Mines  Company,  the  Cannon 
Ball  Consolidated  Mining  and  Milling  Company,  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  St.  George  Electric  Company,  owner  of  Evans's  Addition  to  Poplar  Grove, 
and  several  prominent  industries  through  the  inter-mountain  country. 

Mr.  Evans  is  a  member  of  the  American  Mining  Congress,  the  Commercial 
Club,  the  Masonic  Fraternity,  is  a  thirty-third  degree  Mason,  a  member  of  El 
Kalah  Temple  Mystic  Shrine  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Evans  was  married  in  1893,  to  Miss  Bertha  May  LaDue,  of  Saginaw, 
Michigan,  and  their  union  has  been  blessed  with  three  children,  Gladys  May, 
Richard  J.  Jr.,  and  Shirley  LaBue  Evans. 

Mr.  Evans  occupies  commodious  offices  in  the  D.  F.  Walker  Building,  and  is 
a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Evans  is  always  striving  to  interest  capital,  not  only  in  inter-mountain 
mines,  but  in  all  classes  of  sound  investments  in  the  great  inland  empire,  and 
he  has  demonstrated  the  value  of  forethought,  pluck  and  energy  by  building  up 
a  profitable  business. 


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HENRY    CATROW 


Prominent  in  mining  circles  in  the  inter-mountain  country  and 
especially  in  Utah  is  Henry  Catrow,  one  of  the  youngest  mine  operators 
in  this  country.  Although  he  has  been  a  resident  of  the  State  but  a 
few  years,  he  has  earned  for  himself  an  enviable  place  among  the  min- 
ing men  here.  His  connection  with  the  Ohio  Copper  Mine  at  Bingham 
and  his  success  in  handling  this  property  is  well  known  to  all  conver- 
sant with  the  mining  business  in  Utah  and  elsewhere.  The  fact  that 
this  mine  to-day  is  one  of  the  biggest  propositions  in  the  great  camp  of 
Bingham  and  will  soon  be  shipping  a  tremendous  tonnage  by  virtue 
of  the  fact  that  a  campaign  of  development  was  waged  by  Mr.  Catrow 's 
suggestion  will  stand  as  a  monument  to  his  keenness  and  far-sighted- 
ness. 

Born  in  Miamisburg,  Ohio,  on  the  22nd  of  June,  1878,  he  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Miamisburg.  He  after- 
wards attended  the  Pennsylvania  Military  College  at  Chester,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  finished  his  course  at  the  University  of  Michigan,  gradua- 
ting from  the  law  department. 

In  June,  1903,  after  finishing  his  education  he  came  to  Salt  Lake 
City.  Soon  after  his  arrival  here  he  became  interested  in  the  Ohio 
Copper.  He  immediately  started  to  promote  the  mine  and  it  has  been 
truthfully  said  that  he  was  the  father  of  this  big  proposition.  He 
received  the  financial  backing  of  Ohio  capitalists  and  the  work  on  the 
property  started  in  with  new  vigor  and  vim.  Although  a  couple  of 
years  ago  F.  Aug.  Heinze  received  control  of  the  property,  Mr.  Catrow 
still  was  a  large  shareholder  and  never  ceased  to  interest  himself  in  its 
development.  He  has  given  his  time  and  attention  to  its  development 
from  the  time  when  the  Columbia  tunnel  .was  being  worked  on  the 
Bingham  side  and  the  ore  was  being  treated  at  the  Winamuck  Mill  to 
the  present  time  when  the  big  connection  has  been  made  through  the 
Mascotte  tunnel  and  the  Ohio  Copper  shaft,  and  the  erection  of  the 
huge  3000-ton  mill  at  Lark.  That  this  mine  will  in  a  very  short  time  be 
one  of  the  great  producers  in  Bingham  has  always  been  Mr.  Catrow 's 
contention. 

Mr.  Catrow  was  married  on  the  7th  of  April,  1904,  to  Miss  Charlotte 
May  Bettles,  a  well-known  and  prominent  young  lady  of  this  city.  The 
union  has  been  a  most  happy  one  and  has  been  blessed  by  two  children, 
Alfred  Newton  and  Henry  Catrow,  Jr. 

While  a  man  of  domestic  tastes,  Mr.  Catrow  is  identified  with  sev- 
eral organizations,  namely  the  University  Club,  Commercial  Club  and 
is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason.  He  bothers  very  little  with  politics 
although  he  is  always  alive  to  the  growth  and  development  of  this  city 
and  State.  Besides  being  a  large  stockholder  in  the  Ohio  Copper  he 
is  interested  in  the  Utah  Copper  Company  of  Bingham. 

Mr.  Catrow  is  looked  upon  as  one  of  the  progressive  young  men  in 
the  State  and  his  many  successes  so  far  attest  this  to  be  a  fact. 

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Jacob  Moritz,  who  is  the  energetic  and  progressive  vice-president,  treasurer 
and  general  manager  of  the  Salt  Lake  City  Brewing  Company,  is  a  native  of 
Germany,  born  at  Ingenheim,  Rheinpfalz,  February  22,  1849.  His  father,  Isaac 
Moritz,  was  a  merchant  and  hotel  proprietor  in  the  old  country.  Jacob  attended 
the  schools  of  his  native  city,  and  subsequently  graduated  from  a  business  col- 
lege in  Mannheim,  Germany,  and  immediately  entered  upon  a  business  career. 
September  14,  1866,  he  emigrated  to  America  and  soon  secured  employment  with 
the  F.  M.  Schaefer  Brewing  Company,  one  of  the  best  in  New  York,  where  he 
remained  for  two  years,  acquiring  much  knowledge  of  the  business  in  that  short 
time.  His  next  place  was  with  the  Anheuser-Busch  Brewing  Company  in  St. 
Louis,  where  he  remained  for  a  short  time  and  then  determined  to  try  the  mining 
business.  He  went  to  Helena,  Montana,  and  engaged  in  that  work  until  1871, 
when  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City.  About  that  time  he  started  the  Montana  Brew- 
ery, under  the  firm  name  of  Moritz  &  Richter,  near  Warm  Springs,  and  con- 
ducted a  successful  business  there  for  four  years,  when  the  new  brewery  was  built 
within  the  city  limits.  Success  still  followed  him,  until  to-day  the  plant  of  the 
Salt  Lake  City  Brewing  Company  is  without  doubt  the  largest  in  the  inter- 
mountain  country,  having  a  capacity  of  four  hundred  barrels  a  day,  and  bottling 
one  thousand  three  hundred  dozen  per  day.  The  brands  are  American  Beauty, 
Pilsener,  and  Export,  and  also  an  excellent  Porter  Triple. 

In  1875  Mr.  Moritz  purchased  the  interest  of  Mr.  Richter,  and  also  the  interest 
of  Mr.  Jonnasson  in  the  Tenth  Ward  Brewery,  of  which  Mr.  Moritz  was  brew- 
master  and  manager.  He  then  formed  a  partnership  with  Aaron  Keysor,  which 
ran  until  1881,  at  which  time  the  Keysor  interest  was  purchased  by  Matt  Cullen 
and  the  firm  was  changed  to  Moritz  &  Cullen,  and  continued  as  such  until  1883, 
when  the  company  was  incorporated  as  the  Salt  Lake  City  Brewing  Company, 
which  it  is  called  to-day.  The  capacity  is  about  125,000  barrels  per  annum, 
shipping  to  Idaho,  Wyoming,  Montana,  Nevada,  Colorado,  and  California.  They 
employ  about  one  hundred  men,  and  the  brewery  is  equipped  wdth  all  modern 
machinery  in  the  plant,  and  everything  known  in  the  modern  science  of  brewing 
beer  is  employed.  The  plant  is  a  model  one  in  every  respect,  and  the  output  as 
pure  and  good  as  capital  and  brains  can  make  it.  The  brewery  in  point  of  excel- 
lence is  second  to  none  in  the  country,  and  has  a  complete  electrical  equipment. 

Mr.  Moritz  served  a  term  in  the  State  legislature,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Constitutional  Convention,  and  in  many  ways  has  evidenced  a  keen  interest  in 
the  welfare  of  his  party  and  the  city  of  Salt  Lake. 

In  May,  1889,  Mr.  Moritz  was  married  to  Lahela  Louisson,  who  was  born  in 
Honolulu,  of  Prussian  ancestry,  and  they  reside  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Moritz  is  a  man  of  energy,  unassuming  in  manner,  and  a  keen  observer  of 
human  nature.  Besides  his  connection  with  the  brewing  company,  he  is  inter- 
ested in  the  Burning  Moscow  Mine  and  Milling  Company,  a  director  in  the  Lit- 
tle Chief  Mining  Company,  and  is  a  large  holder  of  real  estate  in  Salt  Lake  City. 


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C.    \V.    SAXMAN 


C.  W.  SAXMAN 

When  the  management  of  a  big  proposition  is  offered  to  the  ordinary  man 
and  it  has  been  a  sort  of  a  bug-a-boo  for  years  and  years,  he  hesitates  a  long  time 
and  tries  to  figure  whether  or  not  he  will  be  more  successful  than  his  predeces- 
sors. The  Yampa  Smelting  Company  and  the  Yampa  Mine,  owned  by  the  Tintic 
Mining  Development  Company  of  New  York,  both  of  which  are  located  in  Bing- 
ham,  Utah,  were  generally  conceded  by  all  those  conversant  with  the  conditions 
in  that  camp  as  propositions  which  were  bound  to  be  failures.  Two  years  ago  a 
young  man  of  quiet  demeanor  came  out  from  the  coal  fields  of  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  had  been  operating,  and  took  hold  as  general  manager  of  the  two 
properties  mentioned,  his  name  being  Charles  W.  Saxman. 

He  was  a  young  man,  born  on  the  22nd  of  November,  1871,  in  Latrobe,  Penn- 
sylvania. He  received  his  preliminary  education  in  Swathmore  College,  Phila- 
delphia, and  finished  in  Harvard  University,  Cambridge,  Mass.  He  came  West 
immediately  after  graduating  from  the  above-named  university  and  for  many 
years  engaged  in  mining  in  all  the  boom  camps  from  Cripple  Creek  to  Gold- 
field.  After  gaining  a  wonderful  experience  in  these  camps  when  they  all  were 
in  their  infancy,  as  you  might  say,  he  went  back  to  the  coal  fields  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  his  father  had  been  an  operator  for  many  years. 

At  this  time,  two  years  ago,  the  directors  of  the  Yampa  Mine  and  Smelter  as 
well  as  of  other  properties  throughout  the  State  and  British  Columbia,  began  to 
look  around  for  a  man  who  could,  as  it  were,  save  the  properties,  especially  in 
Bingham,  and  make  them  paying  propositions.  Finally  the  proposition  was  put 
up  to  Mr.  Saxman,  then  a  man  of  thirty-six  years  of  age.  He  came  out  here 
quietly  and  without  ostentation.  He  spent  a  great  deal  of  his  time  right  on  the 
ground,  and  that  to-day  the  Yampa  Mine  yields  a  tonnage  of  800  tons  a  day 
and  the  Smelter  treats  from  800  to  1000  tons  a  day  against  250  tons  when  he 
assumed  charge,  shows  conclusively  his  ability  and  aggressiveness.  To-day  the 
Yampa  Smelter  is  considered  by  all.  smelting  men  one  of  the  most  complete  and 
best-equipped  plants  in  this  or  any  other  State.  It  would*take  a  book  to  go  into 
details  and  show  in  what  way  this  young  man  wrought  changes  in  the  smelter 
and  mine.  They  were  consummated  so  quickly  and  with  such  lack  of  show  or  dis- 
play that  the  people  in  the  camp  did  not  realize  what  was  going  on  until  the 
reports  began  to  spread  that  twice  the  number  of  men  were  being  employed  and 
the  capacity  of  the  plant  had  almost  quadrupled.  This  smelter  and  mine,  instead 
of  being  a  drain  on  the  stockholders  and  those  interested  in  its  welfare,  soon 
began  to  put  back  into  the  coffers  of  the  company  the  money  which  had  been 
put  out  for  years  to  keep  it  running.  A  couple  of  months  ago  Mr.  Saxman 
resigned  as  manager  of  the  Yampa  Smelting  Company  and  the  Tintic  Mining  and 
Development  Company,  as  all  the  things  mentioned  were  not  done  without 
hard  and  consistent  labor.  He  is  now  taking  a  much-needed  rest  and  shortly 
will  take  up  his  work  in  other  fields. 

Socially  Mr.  Saxman  is  well  known  and  liked.  He  is  a  member  of  many 
organizations,  both  locally  and  in  New  York  City.  He  resides,  when  in  Salt 
Lake,  at  the  Alta  Club  and  is  also  a  prominent  member  of  the  Commercial 
Club.  In  New  York  City  he  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining 
Engineers,  the  American  Mining  Congress,  the  Harvard  Club  and  the  American 
Geographical  Society  of  that  city.  Since  Mr.  Saxman  has  been  in  the  city  he 
has  made  many  friends,  and  his  fairness  in  all  matters  and  the  high  standard  of 
integrity  which  he  has  established  in  all  his  dealings  have  earned  for  him  an 
enviable  reputation. 


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LOUIS    D.    GORDON 


LOUIS  D.  GORDON 

When  one  looks  around  in  this  Western  country  and  sizes  up  the 
conditions,  he  cannot  fail  to  wonder  at  the  young  men ;  by  that  is  meant 
those  between  the  ages  of  twenty-five  and  thirty,  who  are  holding 
responsible  positions  and  filling  them  with  the  same  good  judgment 
and  prudence  which  we  would  expect  from  men  many  years  their  senior. 
Especially  is  this  true  in  the  mining  industry.  Perhaps  in  no  place 
in  the  world  are  there  so  many  young  men  holding  positions  of  respon- 
sibility as  in  this,  inter-mountain  region.  Mayhap  it  is  because  the 
country  where  the  young  men  are  sent  is  a  virgin  one  and  not  the 
places  where  older  men  with  families  could  go  with  convenience.  Not- 
withstanding all  this,  the  fact  remains  that  these  positions  are  held  by 
men  still  in  their  "twenties,"  and  the  statistics  show  that  some  of  the 
most  brilliant  successes  have  been  achieved  by  these  same  boys.  Louis 
D.  Gordon,  son  of  George  I.  Gordon,  a  retired  banker,  can  be  placed  in 
the  category  of  the  young  men  who  have  been  successful  in  the  mining 
business. 

Mr.  Gordon  was  born  in  Nevada  on  the  23rd  of  June,  1883.  He 
received  his  early  training  in  the  schools  of  San  Francisco,  California, 
and  Annapolis,  Md.,  at  the  latter  place  receiving  a  training  in  engineer- 
ing that  has  fitted  him  for  the  work  which  he  took  up  upon  his  return 
to  the  West.  During  the  excitement  in  Nevada  a  few  years  ago,  Mr. 
Gordon  was  one  of  the  first  on  the  ground,  and  though  still  a  boy,  you 
might  say,  he  succeeded  in  consummating  many  propositions  which 
would  have  done  credit  to  men  with  older  heads.  Especially  in  the 
Round  Mountain  Mining  Company,  Mr.  Gordon  distinguished  himself 
and  lie  is  now  heavily  interested  in  that  property. 

After  the  boom  had  spent  its  force  in  that  Nevada  town,  Mr.  Gor- 
don came  to  Salt  Lake  and  invested  in  real  estate.  Mr.  Gordon  is 
interested  heavily  in  several  properties  in  the  State,  especially  in  the 
Tintic  and  Beaver  County  sections,  whose  mines  have  been  some  of 
the  best  dividend  payers  in  the  inter-mountain  region. 

In  all  his  ventures  Mr.  Gordon  has  been  uniformly  successful.  He 
is  a  hard  worker,  and,  although  a  young  man,  he  has  learned  and 
appreciates  the  lesson  that  in  the  mining  industry  as  well  as  all  others, 
the  road  to  success  is  assured  if  a  man  works  hard  and  faithfully, 
and  is  manly  and  straightforward  in  all  his  dealings. 

He  is,  besides  being  an  energetic  worker  in  the  Salt  Lake  Commer- 
cial Club,  a  member  of  the  famous  Montezuma  Club  of  Goldfield,  the 
Alta  Club  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  the  New  York  Athletic  Club. 

Those  who  have  been  following  his  career  predict  one  which  will 
be  crowned  with  success,  as  he  has  the  stamina,  the  ambition  and 
all  the  necessary  qualifications  which  spell  success. 

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W.   F.   JENSEN 


WIGGO  F.  JENSEN 

One  of  the  most  experienced  creamery  men  and  a  recognized  authority  on 
everything  pertaining  to  dairying  in  the  world  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Mr.  Jensen  is  a  native  of  Germany,  and  was  born  at  Osterlinnet,  Schleswig, 
November  28,  1871.  He  is  a  son  of  Jacob  Jensen,  who  was  of  Danish  ancestry, 
and  Marie  Vieland  Jensen.  The  elder  Jensen  was  a  farmer,  and  also  conducted 
a  creamery.  Young  Jensen  decided  to  follow  that  vocation,  and  has  risen 
to  become  one  of  the  leading  creamery  men  in  the  country. 

Wiggo  F.  Jensen  was  educated  in  the  Skebelund  College,  Wejen,  Denmark, 
graduating  in  1888.  He  then  went  back  to  his  father's  creamery,  where  he 
remained  until  1891.  He  then  went  to  Denver,  where  he  engaged  in  the  produce 
commission  business  until  1893.  He  then  went  to  Superior,  Nebraska,  and  took 
charge  of  a  creamery  where  he  remained  till  1895,  going  to  Beloit,  Kansas, 
where  he  remained  for  five  years,  starting  the  Jensen  Creamery  Company.  In 
the  spring  of  1900  Mr.  Jensen  went  to  Topeka,  Kansas,  where  he  became  vice- 
president  of  the  Continental  Creamery  Company,  and  later  assumed  the  presi- 
dency of  the  company,  it  being  the  largest  creamery  in  the  world.  During  Mr. 
Jensen's  residence  in  Topeka,  Kansas,  he,  with  his  brother,  formed  the  Jensen 
Manufacturing  Company,  manufacturers  of  dairy  machinery,  and  the  leading 
firm  of  the  kind  in  the  United  States.  Mr.  Jensen  remained  in  Topeka  until 
the  spring  of  1908,  when  he  removed  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  incorporated  the 
Jensen  Creamery  Company,  with  the  following  officers :  W.  F.  Jensen,  presi- 
dent; I.  N.  Parker,  vice-president;  A.  P.  Henningsen,  secretary  and  treasurer; 
with  branches  at  Pocatello,  Idaho,  the  average  output  of  both  places  being 
3,000,000  pounds  of  butter  per  annum,  with  a  capacity  doubling  that  amount. 
The  entire  product,  including  cream,  eggs,  cheese,  and  poultry,  is  purchased 
from  the  farmers  of  Utah  and  Idaho.  It  will  be  seen,  therefore,  that  the 
Jensen  Creamery  Company  is  an  important  element  in  the  development  of  our 
resources  and  industries.  The  business  of  the.  creamery  extends  throughout 
the  entire  inter-mountain  country,  and  to  California,  Oregon  and  Washington. 
The  company  gives  employment  to  nearly  two  hundred  men,  and  does  a  busi- 
ness of  over  a  million  dollars  a  year. 

Mr.  Jensen  was  married  June  24,  1901,  to  Matilda  R.  Brandt,  of  Kansas, 
and  they  have  one  son,  Ethelbert  W.  Jensen.  Mr.  Jensen  is  president  of  the 
Jensen  Creamery  Company  of  Utah  and  Idaho,  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Reno  Creamery  Company  of  Nevada,  director  of  the  Jensen  Manufacturing 
Company  of  Topeka,  Kansas,  and  a  director  in  the  Western  Printing  and 
Publishing  Company  of  Topeka. 

Mr.  Jensen  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  of 
the  Commercial  Club  of  Topeka,  and  was  its  president  at  one  time.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  B.  P.  0.  E.,  the  Odd  Fellows,  the  Masonic  Fraternity,  and  the 
Saturday  Night  Club  of  Topeka,  Kansas.  He  resides  at  1203  Third  Avenue, 
Salt  Lake  City. 


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AETHUB   A.   SWEET 


ARTHUR  ALONZO  SWEET 

Among  the  younger  generation  of  business  men  of  Utah  there  is 
none  more  prominent  and  progressive  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
who  has  been  very  prominently  identified  with  the  growth  and  develop- 
ment of  the  resources  of  Utah  for  the  past  thirteen  years,  and  who  has 
achieved  the  success  and  distinction  in  his  endeavors  that  seldom  come 
to  a  man  of  his  years. 

Arthur  A.  Sweet  was  born  at  Ellsworth,  Ellsworth  County,  Kan- 
sas, January  10,  1881.  He  is  a  son  of  Alfred  A.  Sweet,  retired  mer- 
chant of  that  city,  and  his  mother  was  Mary  Sweet.  Mr.  Sweet  received 
his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  his  native  city  and  at  the  Rus- 
sell High  School,  at  Russell,  Kansas.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  came 
to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  has  been  very  successful  since  his  arrival.  He 
was  the  promoter  and  organizer  of  the  Independent  Coal  and  Coke 
Company,  which  concern  is  at  present  shipping  eight  hundred  tons  of 
coal  per  day.  He  is  also  general  manager  and  a  director  of  the  Con- 
solidated Fuel  Company,  one  of  the  largest  in  the  West.  This  com- 
pany is  now  shipping  three  thousand  tons  of  coal  per  day,  and  has 
opened  up  the  largest  coal  field  in  Utah.  Mr.  Sweet  is  also  general 
manager  of  the  Southern  Utah  Railway,  which  is  twenty-one  and  one- 
half  miles  in  length,  running  from  Price,  Utah,  into  Emery  County, 
Utah,  opening  up  a  large  coal  and  farming  community  that  will  in 
time  yield  great  wealth  to  the  people  interested,  and  will  be  of  ines- 
timable benefit  to  the  citizens  of  Utah  in  the  development  of  the  great 
mineral  resources  of  the  State.  Mr.  Sweet  is  also  prominently  identi- 
fied with  numerous  other  companies  of  the  inter-mountain  country. 

Mr.  Sweet  was  married  August  31,  1900,  to  Miss  Frances  Mary 
Wade,  and  two  children  have  been  born  to  them,  namely:  Marcella 
and  Harold  Arthur  Sweet.  He  has  never  held  any  political  office, 
being  too  busy  with  his  numerous  industrial  enterprises  to  bother  with 
politics.  Mr.  Sweet  is  a  member  of  Lincoln  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias, 
also  of  the  Commercial  and  Automobile  clubs  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
the  American  Mining  Congress,  and  he  resides  at  853  First  Avenue, 
Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Sweet,  though  one  of  the  youngest  business  men  of  Utah,  has 
shown  executive  ability  and  good  business  judgment  in  all  of  his  under- 
takings, and  a  prosperous  and  successful  future  is  predicted  for  him. 
There  is  much  to  develop  in  the  inter-mountain  country  and  plenty  of 
work  for  the  younger  business  men  to  do,  and  no  doubt  Mr.  Sweet  will 
yet  be  heard  from  in  larger  undertakings  than  he  has  yet  attempted. 


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AUGUST  KOLAND 


AUGUST  ROLAND 

August  Roland,  president  and  treasurer  of  the  Murray  Meat  and 
Live  Stock  Company,  was  born  and  educated  in  Germany,  and  emi- 
grated to  this  country  in  1871.  Mr.  Roland  followed  in  the  footsteps 
of  his  father,  who  was  a  successful  dealer  in  live  stock  in  the  old 
country,  and  it  was  from  him  that  August  inherited  his  universal 
knowledge  of  that  industry.  It  is  doubtful  if  there  is  a  man  in  the 
inter-mountain  country  with  a  more  practical  knowledge  of  the  meat 
and  live  stock  business  than  Mr.  Roland.  He  first  settled  in  Grand 
Rapids,  Michigan,  engaging  in  the  wholesale  meat  business,  and 
remained  there  until  1881.  He  next  furnished  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
and  Colorado  Midland  railroads  with  beef  during  the  completion  of 
their  contracts  for  construction,  which  kept  him  busy  until  1889. 

He  then  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  secured  a  partner  and  started  in 
the  wholesale  meat  business,  under  the  firm  name  of  Roland  and 
Sampson.  This  enterprise  lasted  two  years.  In  the  meantime  Mr. 
Roland  held  a  flock  of  sheep  on  the  Utah  range  near  Grand  Junction, 
and  on  account  of  the  tariff  being  taken  off  wool  on  the  passage  of 
the  Wilson  bill  during  President  Cleveland's  administration,  Mr. 
Roland  sustained  a  loss  of  about  two  dollars  per  head,  which  proved 
quite  a  setback  to  him.  As  he  had  about  thirty-two  thousand  head  of 
sheep,  he  lost  a  fortune.  However,  with  rare  courage,  he  returned  to 
Salt  Lake  and  started  the  Murray  Meat  and  Live  Stock  Company  in 
1893.  Since  then  the  plant  has  been  improved  and  shows  equipment 
and  sanitary  conditions  unsurpassed  by  any  of  the  big  packing  houses 
in  the  East.  The  company  does  its  own  slaughtering,  the  cattle  coming 
from  the  principal  cattle  raising  sections  of  the  inter-mountain  country. 
Every  animal  bought  is  inspected  before  and  after  slaughter,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  strictest  inspection  regulations,  and  any  that  do  not  pass 
the  most  rigid  inspection  are  condemned.  The  plant  is  always  open  to 
inspection  by  visitors,  which  has  always  been  encouraged  and  invited. 

Mr.  Roland  in  a  marked  degree  is  a  man  of  courage  and  determina- 
tion, with  perseverance  and  an  earnest  endeavor  to  succeed  in  business 
and  to  do  what  is  right  by  everybody.  He  is  a  man  of  practical  ideas, 
and  through  his  business  experience  and  travel  and  observation,  he 
has  become  a  man  of  broad  general  information  and  of  progressive 
views,  and  has  made  an  untarnished  record  in  all  his  business  con- 
nections. Socially  he  has  a  happy  faculty  of  making  friends  and  enjoy- 
ing their  respect  and  esteem. 


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F.  S.  HATCH 


FEED  S.  HATCH 

Prominent  in  the  affairs  of  one  of  the  chief  industries  of  the  State, 
few  men  are  better  known  in  Western  business  circles  than  Fred  S. 
Hatch.  As  general  manager  of  the  Inter-mountain  Packing  Company 
of  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  he  has  a  large  acquaintance,  not  only  among 
stock  men,  but  in  the  commercial  world  at  large. 

Mr.  Hatch  is  a  native  of  New  York  and  was  born  at  Portville, 
that  State,  December  24,  1869.  He  is  a  son  of  George  ~\Y.  Hatch,  a 
farmer,  born  at  Farmersville,  New  York,  and  Livera  A.  Stevens  Hatch 
of  Geneseo,  New  York. 

Mr.  Hatch  was  educated  at  Portville  Academy  and  at  Westbrook 
College,  Olean,  N.  Y.,  where  he  graduated  in  1889.  After  leaving  school 
he  became  a  bookkeeper  for  J.  S.  Bishop  &  Son,  Olean,  N.  Y.,  and 
afterwards  became  connected  with  W.  H.  Granger  &  Company,  whole- 
sale grocers  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  While  employed  with  this  firm,  his 
business  ability  attracted  the  attention  of  F.  B.  Keeney,  a  large  dealer 
in  hay  and  grain,  who  secured  the  services  of  Mr.  Hatch  as  his  pur- 
chasing agent  at  Belvidere,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Hatch  held  this  position  for  five 
years,  until  1894,  when  he  purchased  a  farm  in  Wyoming  County  from 
Mr.  Keeney.  His  next  venture  was  in  the  mercantile  business  in  Eden, 
Erie  County,  N.  Y.,  where  he  continued  until  1898.  In  this  year  he 
removed  to  Olean,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  in  business  until  April  12,  1902. 

Entering  the  employ  of  Armour  &  Co.  as  a  salesman,  in  1902,  he 
rose  rapidly  in  the  estimation  of  the  firm,  and  in  July,  1903,  was  placed 
in  charge  of  the  extensive  interests  of  the  Armours  at  Boise,  Idaho. 
Here  he  remained  until  1905,  when  he  was  transferred  to  Portland, 
Oregon,  and  placed  in  charge  of  the  branch  there.  His  next  move  was 
to  Butte,  Mont.,  where  he  remained  until  1906,  when  at  his  own  request 
he  was  sent  to  Salt  Lake  City  as  manager  of  the  Armour  interests.  He 
held  this  position  until  August,  1907,  when  he  was  placed  in  charge  of 
the  house  at  Oakland,  Cal.,  remaining  there  until  August  1,  1908,  at 
which  time  he  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City.  In  December  of  the  same 
year,  the  Inter-Mountain  Packing  Company,  a  Utah  corporation,  seek- 
ing for  a  man  of  thorough  business  and  executive  ability  was  fortunate 
in  securing  the  services  of  Mr.  Hatch  as  general  manager,  which  posi- 
tion he  holds  at  the  present  time. 

Organized  in  the  fall  of  1905  as  the  Utah  Packing  Company,  the1 
Inter-Mountain  Packing  Company  is  purely  a  home  industry,  the 
officers  of  which  include  some  of  the  State 's  most  progressive  capitalists. 
Its  officers  when  the  company  assumed  its  present  title  were:  James 
A.  Eldredge,  president;  D.  L.  Evans,  vice-president;  C.  R.  Long,  sec- 
retary; W.  S.  McCornick,  treasurer,  and  F.  A.  Danielson,  manager. 

The  present  officers  are:  James  A.  Eldredge  of  Bountiful,  Utah, 
president;  D.  L.  Evans,  Malad,  Ida.,  vice-president;  W.  S.  McOornick, 
Salt  Lake,  treasurer ;  0.  O.  Whitney,  Salt  Lake,  secretary ;  F.  S.  Hatch', 
general  manager.  The  directors  are  James  A.  Eldredge,  D.  L.  Evans, 
James  H.  Moyle,  J.  C.  Leary,  George  C.  Crawford,  William  Mclntyre, 
Samuel  Mclntyre,  George  C.  Whitmore  and  W.  S.  McCornick. 

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JOHN  KOUNDY 


JOHN  ROUNDY 

John  Roundy  is  a  type  of  the  practical  mining  man  who  has  won 
success  through  his  own  ability  as  a  good  mining  man.  He  is  one  of 
Jesse  Knight's  most  valued  men,  and  has  been  instrumental  in  devel- 
oping more  valuable  properties  in  the  Tintic  district  than  any  other 
man. 

John  Roundy  was  born  May  18,  1864,  at  Springville,  Utah.  His 
father,  Loren  H.  Roundy,  was  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser,  and  his 
mother  was  Jane  Koyle  Roundy.  Young  Roundy  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Springville,  and  his  future  knowledge  was  gained  by 
practical  experience  with  the  world. 

Mr.  Roundy  is  interested  in  the  numerous  Knight  properties  and 
superintendent  of  same  at  Tintic.  He  has  been  interested  in  mining 
matters  since  he  was  seventeen  years  of  age,  and  has  operated  in 
Nevada,  Arizona  and  Utah,  and  at  the  present  time  is  holding  some 
good  properties  in  Nevada.  Among  the  noted  mines  that  are  good 
producers  and  valuable  properties  in  the  Tintic  district  that  Mr.  Roundy 
developed  and  assisted  in  the  development  of,  are  the  Humbug,  the 
Beck  Tunnel,  the  Iron  Blossom,  the  Colorado,  the  Black  Jack  and 
Uncle  Sam. 

On  February  14,  1889,  Mr.  Roundy  was  married  to  Eleanor 
McEwan,  and  to  them  have  been  born  seven  children;  namely:  Nellie, 
John  M.,  Amanda,  lone,  Clayton  Fern,  Bert  Lincoln,  and  Lorin  H. 
(deceased).  He  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club  of  Provo,  and 
resides  with  his  family  at  146  South  Academy  Avenue  in  one  of  the 
finest  residences  in  Provo. 


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R.   C.  GEMMELL 


ROBERT  C.  GEMMELL 

Among  the  mining  engineers  who  have  achieved  success  and  distinction  in 
their  chosen  profession,  none  stand  out  more  conspicuously,  nor  have  accom- 
plished more  in  real  development  work  in  this  and  other  countries,  than  has 
Robert  Campbell  Gemmell,  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  at  present  occupy- 
ing the  important  position  of  general  superintendent  of  the  Utah  Copper  Com- 
pany's interests  in  Utah.  Mr.  Gemmell  was  born  at  Port  Matilda,  Pennsyl- 
vania, July  5,  1863,  a  son  of  Robert  Brown  and  Anna  Eliza  Campbell  Gemmell. 
The  elder  Gemmell  was  a  railroad  man  of  prominence  and  was  superintendent 
of  the  telegraph  service  of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  and  as  a 
youth  was  employed  by  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  in  the  service  of  the  late 
Thomas  Scott. 

R.  C.  Gemmell  finished  his  education  at  the  University  of  Michigan,  from 
which  institution  he  received  two  degrees,  one  of  Bachelor  of  Science  in  civil 
engineering  in  1884,  and  the  other  of  Civil  Engineer  in  1895.  From  1884  until 
1890,  Mr.  Gemmell  was  employed  in  the  engineering  department  of  the  A.  T. 
&  S.  F.  Railroad,  surveying  and  constructing  some  of  its  branch  railway  lines. 
From  1890  until  the  summer  of  1893  he  was  engaged  in  the  practice  of  hydrau- 
lic and  mining  engineering  in  the  Northwest,  in  the  States  of  Oregon,  Wash- 
ington, and  Idaho.  Mr.  Gemmell  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  November,  1893, 
and  since  then  has  been  actively  identified  in  the  mining  world  and  its  develop- 
ment. 

Mr.  Gemmell  was  engineer  for  Captain  De  La  Mar  from  1896  until  1901, 
having  charge  of  his  engineering  work  in  a  general  way,  and  making  examina- 
tions of  properties  in  various  parts  of  the  country.  In  1901  Mr.  Gemmell 
went  to  Mexico  as  general  manager  of  the  Mexican  Mining  Syndicate  and  during 
his  stay  there  examined  and  developed  a  number  of  mining  properties,  remain- 
ing with  that  company  for  about  two  years.  He  was  then  employed  by  the 
Guggenheim  Exploration  Company,  and  examined  and  developed  some  of  their 
properties  in  Mexico  during  the  following  two  years.  In  1905  Mr.  Gemmell 's 
services  were  retained  by  a  New  York  syndicate  of  capitalists,  and  he  was  sent 
to  Spain  for  the  purpose  of  examining  some  gold  mining  properties  in  their 
interests.  Mr.  Gemmell  then  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  on  January  1, 
1906,  assumed  the  position  he  now  occupies  as  general  superintendent  of  the 
Utah  Copper  Company. 

Mr.  Gemmell  was  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  was 
for  two  terms,  from  1898  to  1901,  inclusive,  State  engineer  of  Utah.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Alta  Club  and  the  Country  Club  of  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah ;  also 
of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  the  American  Institute  of  Mining 
Engineers,  and  the  Mining  and  Metallurgical  Society  of  America.  Mr.  Gem- 
mell was  married  October  17,  1888,  to  Miss  Belle  E.  Anderson,  and  they  reside 
at  the  Bransford  apartments,  Salt  Lake  City. 


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A.  w.  SCOTT   (SCOTT  MINES  co.) 


THE   SCOTT   MINES    COMPANY 

The  Scott  Mines  Company,  while  a  Nevada  corporation,  has  on  its  Board  of  Directors 
a  number  of  Salt  Lake  City  business  men  whose  standing  in  the  community  is  such  that 
they  have  the  unbounded  confidence  of  their  associates.  This  company  was  organized 
October  30,  1908,  with  an  authorized  capital  of  5,000,000  shares  of  the  par  value  of  $1  per 
share.  It  is  organized  as  a  holding  company,  with  all  of  the  stock  in  the  treasury.  The 
purpose  of  organization  was  to  finance  and  secure  control  of  the  Boston  &  Pioche  Mining 
Company,  the  Rawhide  Northern  Mines  Company,  and  other  companies  through  the  exchange 
of  stock.  The  members  of  the  Board  of  Directors  are:  A.  W.  Scott,  president  and  treasurer; 
R.  Van  Buggenhoudt,  vice-president  and  secretary;  Emile  M.  Maertens,  T.  A.  Snyder,  J. 
L.  Scott,  Judge  J.  W.  Burton  and  F.  C.  Richmond. 

Mr.  A.  W.  Scott,  president  and  treasurer  of  the  company,  is  a  very  well-known  man  in 
the  mining  world  because  of  his  success  in  a  number  of  mining  enterprises  in  Nevada  to 
which  he  pinned  his  faith.  The  properties  controlled  by  the  Scott  Mines  Company,  without 
liabilities,  are  the  following:  The  Boston  &  Pioche  Mining  Company,  operating  in  Pioche. 
Nevada;  the  Rawhide  Northern  Consolidated  Mines  Company,  operating  in  Rawhide,  Nevada; 
the  Pioche  &  Arizona  Copper  &  Gold  Mining  Company,  operating  in  Bouse,  Arizona.  Among 
other  Nevada  holdings,  the  Scott  Mines  Company  owns  the  Baby  Fraction,  in  Ely,  Nevada. 
The  Boston  &  Pioche  Mining  Company's  property  at  Pioche,  owned  by  this  company, 
comprises  the  following:  Yuba  East  Mine,  the  Boss  Mine,  the  Nevada  Homestake,  North 
Pole,  North  Pole  Fraction,  East  Peavine,  Simpson,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  Fannie,  and 
Mary  Ann,  all  of  which  constitute  the  Pioche  group.  These  holdings  cover  approximately 
one  mile  on  the  famous  Yuba  Dike.  The  Boston  &  Pioche  Mining  Company  owns  also,  in 
the  Highland  Mining  District,  the  following  properties :  Mollie  Gibson,  Augustine,  Fargo, 
Great  West,  Great  Western,  Hottentot,  West  Yuba,  and  a  one-quarter  interest  in  the 
Florence  group,  comprising  the  Florence,  Florence  No.  2,  Florence  No.  3  and  Florence  No.  4. 
In  the  Ely  Mining  District,  the  Boston  &  Pioche  Mining  Company  owns  the  Louise,  adjoining 
the  Prince  Consolidated  Mining  Company,  and  the  Mazeppi  Fraction.  In  the  Bristol  Mining 
District  it  owns  the  McFadden  Mine,  and  158  acres  of  water  land,  which  is  patented. 

Since  the  Scott  Mines  Company  acquired  these  properties  development  work  has  been 
carried  forward  night  and  day.  Ore  is  being  extracted  and  placed  in  the  bins.  They  are 
developing  the  ore  bodies,  but  are  not  extracting  the  ores  save  in  development  work.  They 
purpose  to  sink  to  the  1,000-foot  level,  and  will  ship  steadily  as  soon  as  shipments  are 
begun.  The  property  now  being  developed  by  the  Scott  Mines  Company  is  on  the  same 
strike  as  the  famous  Yuba  East  Mine,  which  has  produced  $40,000,000.  The  same  porphyry 
that  produced  this  ore  is  on  the  Scott  Mines  Company's  holdings.  The  Boston  &  Pioche 
Mining  Company  is  fully  equipped  with  modern  power  machinery,  air  compressor,  air  drills, 
blacksmith  shop,  carpenter  shop,  sawmill,  a  boarding  house  and  sleeping  quarters  for  the 
men. 

In  Rawhide  the  Scott  Mines  Company  owns  the  control  of  the  Rawhide  Northern  Con- 
solidated Mines  Company,  incorporated  for  $2,000,000,  which  owns  twelve  claims  in  Esme- 
ralda  and  Elko  counties,  Nevada,  and  owns  all  the  stock  of  the  Last  Chance  Mining  & 
Leasing  Company,  and  a  majority  of  the  stock  of  the  Rawhide  Northern  Mining  Company. 
The  first  named  company  of  this  group  owns  the  Alta  Fraction,  and  Leases  Nos.  1,  2  and  4 
on  the  Last  Chance  Company's  ground  in  Rawhide.  The  lease  extends  three  years  from 
this  date,  and  all  of  the  stock  was  taken  over  by  the  Rawhide  Northern  Consolidated  Mines 
Company,  which  is  now  developing  the  property.  The  Morrissey  Lease  is  fully  equipped 
with  modern  machinery.  Excellent  values  in  gold  are  found  in  the  300-foot  shaft,  which 
is  timbered  throughout.  About  335  feet  of  work  has  been  done  on  this  level'.  Leases  2 
and  4  are  being  explored.  The  Scott  Mines  Company  is  also  interested  in  the  Rawhide 
Northern  Mines  Company,  owning  59  acres  of  ground,  all  lying  in  the  heart  of  the  gold- 
bearing  region.  This  ground  is  being  developed  by  leasers,  who  have  agreed  to  go  to  a 
depth  of  550  feet.  Rawhide  has  four  mills  in  operation  and  one  under  construction.  A 
railroad  is  graded  and  steel  is  being  laid.  It  will  connect  Rawhide  with  Shurz,  on  the 
Goldfield  branch  of  the  Southern  Pacific.  The  company  building  the  road  proposes  to  build 
a  400-ton  custom  mill  at  Walker  Lake,  on  this  line,  for  Rawhide  ores,  and  available  ores 
now  on  the  dump  will  be  treated  more  economically  than  could  be  done  heretofore. 

The  Scott  Mines  Company  recently  acquired  control  of  the  Pioche  &  Arizona  Copper  & 
Gold  Mining  Company,  owning  six  claims  in  Bouse  Mining  District,  Arizona,  known  as  the 
Heart's  Desire  group.  This  property  is  in  the  lower  foothills  of  the  Plumosa  Range,  five 
miles  west  of  Bouse,  and  two  and  one-half  miles  south  of  the  A.  &  C.  Railway,  a  branch  of 
the  Santa  Fe.  A  wagon  road  connects  the  mines  with  the  railroad.  Surface  indications 
on  this  property  indicate  an  enormous  copper  deposit.  A  general  sample  of  the  ore  shoofls 
exposed,  taken  across  the  vein  for  a  distance  of  400  feet,  gave  returns  of  20%  copper  and 
$6.80  per  ton  gold.  The  Scott  Mines  Company  has  begun  active  work  on  this  property 
recently  with  a  view  to  getting  it  into  shipping  condition. 

From  these  details  it  may  be  seen  that  the  Scott  Mines  Company,  under  the  management 
of  its  president,  who  is  also  its  general  manager,  will  certainly  make  good  and  prove  itself 
one  of  the  most  successful  mining  companies  in  the  West. 

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HE   territory   comprised    within   the   State   of 
Idaho  was  the  last  in  the  Cnion  to  be  trod- 
den by  the  foot  of  the  white  man.    Originally 
claimed   by    Spain    under   her   claim   to   the 
whole  of  the  New  World,  and  lying  between 
what  was  later  acknowledged  Spanish  terri- 
tory on  the  south  and  the  territory  on  the 
north  claimed  first  by  France  and  later  held 
by    England,    it    was   not    reached    by    the    early    Spanish 
explorations  which  in  the  two  and  a  half  centuries  follow- 
ing the  voyages  of  Columbus  penetrated  some  part  of  the 
country  now   included   in   each    State   south   of   the   forty- 
second  parallel  and  west  of  the  Mississippi  River. 

Following  Magellan's  passage  around  South  America 
in  1520,  the  wave  of  exploration  quickly  rolled  up  the  west- 
ern coast  of  the  New  World,  and  was  soon  followed,  at 
first  by  a  few  and  later  by  increasing  numbers  of  trading 
vessels  intent  on  barter  with  the  natives.  But  this  wave 
rolled  back  from  the  rugged  coast  line  like  the  ebb  of  the 
tide  or  the  retreat  of  the  great  storm  waves  baffled  and 
broken  after  flinging  themselves  in  impotent  fury  against 
the  rocky  barrier.  These  traders  barely  touched  the  coast, 
their  penetration  of  the  interior  being  confined  to  finding 
some  sheltered  inlet  affording  safe  anchorage  for  the  ship 
while  bartering  with  the  inhabitants  of  the  coast  and 
such  tribes  as  came  down  from  the  interior  for  that  pur- 
pose. These  men  never  passed  even  the  Cascade  Range, 
and  that  any  of  them  ever  saw  any  portion  of  the  present 
State  of  Idaho  is  improbable. 

The  real  explorers  of  the  interior  of  that  part  of  the 
North  American  continent  now  included  in  the  United 
States  and  Canada  were  the  French  and  French  Canadian 
"voyageurs,"  those  hardy  men  of  the  lake,  stream  and 
forest  who  at  first  under  French,  and  later  imder  English 
auspices  and  leadership,  came  by  the  way  of  the  St. 
Lawrence  and  the  Great  Lakes,  and  traversed  the  continent 
from  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi  to  that  of  the  McKenzie, 
and  from  Newfoundland  to  Vancouver.  Sometimes  they 
went  as  missionaries,  fired  with  religious  zeal;  more  often 


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as  trappers  bent  on  obtaining  by  any  means  at  their  command  the  wealth  of  furs  this  great 
region  then  afforded.  Both  by  training  and  by  habit  they  were  travelers  by  water  rather 
than  by  land.  They  were  expert  in  the  building  and  handling  of  the  canoes  and  light  boats 
so  well  adapted  to  the  navigation  of  the  rivers  and  lakes  so  numerous  in  the  interior  of  the 
continent,  especially  in  the  region  of  the  Great  Lakes  and  the  vast  expanse  of  country  to  the 
west  and  northwest  of  them.  They  so  much  preferred  traveling  by  water  that  it  was  only 
with  great  reluctance  and  when  the  point  desired  could  not  be  reached  in  any  other  way, 
that  they  could  be  induced  to  travel  overland. 

From  the  northern  shores  of  Lake  Superior  there  is,  through  a  marvelous  network  of 
lakes  and  rivers,  an  almost  unbroken  water  route  northwest  down  the  McKenzie  to  the 
Arctic  Ocean,  and  up  the  Peace  and  Athabaska,  western  tributaries  of  the  McKenzie, 
and  the  two  branches  of  the  Saskatchewan,  falling  ultimately  into  Hudson's  Bay,  to  the 
eastern  base  of  the  Rocky  Mountains.  This  fact,  coupled  with  the  other  important  one 
that  the  animals  whose  furs  were  most  sought  were  more  numerous  and  more  easily 
caught  along  the  streams  than  away  from  them,  accounts  for  the  deflection  of  the  early 
explorations  from  this  source  to  the  northwest  instead  of  going  directly  west  across  the 
continent  in  the  latitude  of  Idaho.  Thus  it  happened  that  Idaho,  walled  in  on  the  east, 
west  and  north  by  giant  mountains,  and  penetrated  only  by  rivers  flowing  to  the  Pacific 
and  the  Great  Salt  Lake,  was  passed  by,  while  the  continent  was  crossed  and  recrossed 
both  north  and  south  of  it. 

Many  Spanish  expeditions  from  the  time  of  the  bombastic  Balboa  had  reached  the 
Pacific  overland,  but  none  of  them  north  of  the  Bay  of  San  Francisco.  Alexander 
McKenzie,  in  the  employ  of  the  Northwest  Fur  Company,  after  having  in  1789  first  explored 
to  the  Arctic  Ocean  the  river  which  has  since  borne  his  name,  started  late  in  1792  from 
his  base  at  Fort  Chipewyan  on  Lake  Athabaska  in  an  endeavor  to  reach  the  Pacific.  He 
proceeded  up  Peace  River,  and,  after  wintering  500  miles  to  the  southwest,  where  the 
party  almost  perished  from  cold,  he  continued  up  the  river  and  by  a  short  portage  across 
the  Rockies  and  down  a  tributary  of  the  Frazer  and  the  main  stream  itself  to  near  the 
Blackwater,  a  branch  coming  in  from  the  west,  thence  overland  to  the  Pacific  at  Xorth 
Bentinck  Arm.  He  returned  by  the  .same  route,  arriving  at  Fort  Chipewyan  in  September. 

The  early  accounts  of  many  regions  are  largely  traditional,  and  in  them  a  little 
truth  is  so  blended  with  fable  or  gross  exaggeration  that  it  is  often  a  difficult  matter  to 
winnow  the  kernels  of  historical  fact  from  the  chaff  in  which  they  are  concealed.  This  is 
true  of  Idaho,  but  in  a  comparatively  small  degree  only.  The  first  mention  of  the  Rocky 
Mountains  in  the  latitude  of  Idaho  is  found  in  La  Hontan's  account  of  his  pretended 
"journey  up  the  long  river"  in  1G88.  He  tells  of  having  met  four  men  who  informed  him 
they  lived  in  "the  country  farthest  to  the  north  and  west  then  known,  and  beyond  moun- 
tains six  leagues  broad,  and  so  high  one  must  cast  an  infinity  of  windings  and  turnings 
before  he  can  cross  them,"  and  that  their  principal  river  "runs  a  great  way  westward" 
and  empties  into  a  vast  salt  lake.  It  is  supposed  the  "long  river"  is  tlie  Missouri,  the 
mountains  one  of  the  numerous  ranges  of  the  Rocky  Mountains  and  "the  river  flowing  west" 
the  Columbia  or  possibly  the  Colorado.  The  first  Europeans  to  see  the  Rocky  Mountains 
in  this  latitude  were  undoubtedly  the  members  of  Verendrye's  party  of  French  and 
Canadian  explorers,  traders  and  hunters,  who,  having  proceeded  westward  from  Lake 
Superior  to  a  distance  much  greater  than  that  at  which  they  expected  to  find  the  moun- 
tains, were  in  January,  1743,  confronted  by  the  rugged,  snowy  ranges  of  western  Montana, 
and,  despairing  of  reaching  by  that  route  the  ocean  they  were  seeking,  turned  south  and 
east,  returning  by  the  way  of  the  Yellowstone  River. 

It  is  probable  that  the  first  white  man  who  set  foot  on  the  soil  of  Idaho  was  one  of 
those  adventurous  fur  traders  or  trappers  who  pushed  out  far  in  advance  as  the  Hudson 
Bay  and  Northwest  companies  extended  their  operations  across  the  continent.  Most 


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of  these  men  were  of  French  descent,  many  of  them  halfbreeds,  and  after  they  became 
engaged  in  this  work  they  knew  no  home  but  the  wilderness.  They  took  Indian  wives,  lived 
among  the  Indians,  and  to  a  large  extent  adopted  the  Indian  mode  of  life.  But  they  left 
no  story  of  their  travels,  no  description  of  the  new  regions  visited.  Trained  to  reticence 
along  this  line,  and  to  deception  if  too  closely  questioned,  they  never  told  what  they  had 
found,  for  the  reason  that  each  desired  to  preserve  for  himself  or  his  company  the 
desirable  new  hunting  and  trapping  grounds  he  had  discovered.  Consequently  they  do  not 
count,  either  as  a  matter  of  history  or  so  far  as  the  world  of  to-day  is  concerned. 

Eliminating  these  trappers  and  fur  traders,  it  remained  for  the  Lewis  and  Clarke 
government  exploring  expedition  of  1805-06  to  first  penetrate  this  region  of  towering  moun- 
tains, vast  forests,  extensive  plains,  dark,  silent  lakes  and  mighty  rushing  rivers,  and 
give  the  story  to  the  world.  Having  passed  the  winter  of  1804-05  on  the  Missouri  River 
near  where  Bismarck,  North  Dakota,  now  stands,  the  Lewis  and  Clarke  party  of  thirty-two 
persons  proceeded  up  the  river  to  the  junction  of  Horse  Prairie  Creek  with  Reed  Rock 
Creek,  between  where  the  towns  of  Red  Rock  and  Dillon,  Montana,  now  are.  Here  the 
canoes  were  abandoned,  and,  horses  having  been  bought  from  the  Indians,  they  advanced 
over  practically  the  present  Salmon  stage  route  up  Horse  Prairie  Creek,  crossing  what  is 
now  the  Idaho  State  line  on  the  ridge  of  the  divide  and  down  Agency  Creek,  emerging 
into  Lemhi  valley  near  where  Fort  Lemhi  was  later  built.  Thus  did  the  first  white  men 
who  have  left  their  story  to  posterity  enter  the  State  of  Idaho.  Their  course  was  north 
down  the  Lemhi,  their  intention  being  to  follow  the  stream  until  they  reached  the  Columbia. 
When  the  rapids  below  Salmon  City  were  encountered  a  party  was  sent  by  land  to 
explore  the  river  further  down.  They  reported  it  impassable  for  canoes.  The  attempt 
was  then  made  to  follow  the  Salmon  by  land,  but  after  a  trial  of  two  or  three  days  the 
country  became  so  rugged  the  horses  could  go  no  further  and  this,  too,  had  to  be  given 
up.  With  difficulty  the  party  found  its  way  over  the  Bitter  Root  Mountains  north  of 
Shoup,  went  down  the  Bitter  Root  valley  to  the  Lolo  Fork,  thence  up  that  stream,  over 
the  Lolo  pass,  and,  proceeding  between  the  North  and  Middle  Forks  of  the  Clearwater, 
emerged  into  the  prairie.  At  the  junction  of  the  North  Fork  of  the  Clearwater  with  the 
main  stream  they  constructed  canoes  and  embarked  on  the  river  on  their  way  to  the 
mouth  of  the  Columbia.  The  party  had  entered  Idaho  at  the  head  of  Agency  Creek  on 
the  12th  of  August,  and  it  was  the  10th  of  October  when  their  canoes  crossed  the  western 
boundary  at  the  junction  of  the  Clearwater  and  the  Snake.  They  had  traversed  only 
territory  now  embraced  in  the  counties  of  Lemhi.  Idaho  and  Nez  Perce.  In  May  and 
June  of  1806  Lewis  and  Clarke  were  again  on  the  Clearwater,  on  the  return  trip.  They 
did  not  touch  Lemhi  County  on  the  return,  following  the  Nez  Perce  or  Lolo  trail  over 
Lolo  pass  and  almost  directly  east  by  way  of  the  Blackfoot  River,  reaching  the  Missouri 
River  north  of  where  Helena  now  is. 

Lewis  and  Clarke  found  the  Indians  of  Idaho  in  possession  of  articles  of  European 
manufacture,  which  had  been  obtained  mostly  from  trading  vessels  along  the  coast,  and 
had  been  passed  in  barter  from  tribe  to  tribe  until  they  had  reached  this  remote  region. 
As  time  went  on  the  number  of  traders  and  trappers  who  visited  the  country  year  by 
year  increased,  as  the  fur  trade  of  the  interior  of  the  continent  gradually  pushed  west- 
ward over  the  mountains.  In  1809  the  trading  post  of  Fort  Henry  was  built  on  the 
Henry  or  North  Fork  of  the  Snake  in  Fremont  County.  It  was  the  first  footing  estab- 
lished by  white  men  in  what  is  now  Idaho,  and  has  the  distinction  of  being  the  first  post 
planted  by  citizens  of  the  United  States  west  of  the  Rocky  Mountains.  It  was  built  by 
Agent  Henry  for  the  Missouri  Fur  Company,  but,  owing  to  Indian  hostilities,  was  aban- 
doned in  1810. 

In  1811  Astor's  Pacific  Fur  Company  established  a  fort  at  Astoria  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Columbia,  and  several  at  interior  points  in  Washington  and  Oregon.  The  war  of  1812 
stopped  all  American  activity  in  the  Northwest,  and  everything  American,  including 

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Astoria,  was  taken  possession  of  by  the  English  and  the  English  fur  companies,  and  the 
authority  of  the  United  States  was  not  re-established  until  1818.  Within  the  next  fifteen 
years  the  American  fur  companies  and  traders  and  trappers  from  the  United  States 
traversed  the  country  each  year  and  the  fur  trade  grew  to  enormous  proportions.  But 
little  of  historical  value  concerning  this  period  has  come  down  to  us  in  authentic  form. 

In  1834  Nathaniel  J.  Wyeth  established  a  settlement  at  Eort  Hall,  the  first  permanent 
white  settlement  in  Idaho.  The  first  location  was  on  the  south  side  of  the  Portneuf  River 
not  far  from  the  Snake,  but  was  soon  changed  to  the  east  bank  of  the  Snake,  just  above 
the  mouth  of  the  Portneuf.  This  was  the  location  of  the  famous  old  Fort  Hall  of  early 
Idaho  history.  Many  years  later  the  location  was  again  changed  to  the  one  ten  miles 
east  of  Blackfoot,  which  was  in  turn  abandoned  only  four  or  five  years  ago  for  the  present 
site  at  Rossfork.  Located  at  the  crossing  of  the  Oregon  trail  and  the  later  route  from 
Utah  to  Montana,  and  being  also  the  point  of  divergence  from  the  Oregon  trail  of  the 
early  route  to  California,  Fort  Hall  assumed  great  importance,  becoming  one  of  the  most 
prominent  posts  in  all  the  inter-mountain  region.  For  more  than  a  generation  it  was  a 
haven  of  rest  and  a  port  of  safety  for  the  weary  traveler,  emigrant  and  hunter,  jaded  and 
worn  with  the  hardships  of  desert  or  mountain  travel,  or  perhaps  suffering  from  hunger, 
or  despoiled  and  threatened  by  savage  foes.  On  this  trip  Wyeth's  party  twice  met  that 
of  the  picturesque  Bonneville,  the  "Bald  Chief,"  as  he  was  called  by  the  Indians — once 
in  Bannock  County  near  where  Soda  Springs  now  is,  and  later  in  the  Grand  Ronde  valley, 
in  eastern  Oregon. 

In  1836  Rev.  H.  H.  Spaulding,  a  Presbyterian  missionary,  established,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Missions,  a  mission  post  and  school  at  Lapwai  in  the 
beautiful  valley  of  a  tributary  of  the  Clearwater,  about  twelve  miles  east  of  where  Lewis- 
ton  now  stands.  This  was  the  first  mission  in  the  State,  and  here  was  set  up  and  used 
the  first  printing  press  in  Idaho.  In  the  same  year  the  Hudson  Bay  Company  established 
Fort  Boise  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Snake,  just  above  the  mouth  of  the  Boise  River.  Fort 
Boise  was  located  on  neutral  ground,  and  was  for  ten  years  an  important  post,  being  the 
annual  meeting  place  of  the  Indians  for  500  miles  in  every  direction  for  the  purpose  of 
trading  and  indulging  in  the  horse-racing  and  athletic  contests  of  which  they  were  pas- 
sionately fond.  This  fort  was  abandoned  in  1847. 

For  eighteen  years  following  the  expedition  of  Fremont  through  the  State  in  1843 
thousands  of  emigrants,  gold-seekers  and  adventurers  passed  through  the  State  over  the 
Oregon  and  California  trails,  but  few  of  them  settled  in  it.  In  fact,  the  country  now 
embraced  within  the  State  was  practically  without  population  until  1860,  when  placer 
gold  was  discovered  on  the  Clearwater  by  a  party  of  prospectors  consisting  of  Hiram 
Pierce  and  five  companions.  That  the  State  was  slow  in  settling  is  not  to  be  wondered 
at  when  the  conditions  then  existing  are  considered.  The  impression  of  Idaho  that  was 
obtained  by  the  traveler  at  this  period  over  the  old  Oregon  emigrant  road  must  have  been 
a  good  deal  like  that  forced  upon  the  passenger  on  an  Oregon  Short  Line  train  between 
Pocatello  and  the  western  limits  of  the  State  in  the  first  fifteen  years  of  the  operation 
of  that  road.  Both  saw  for  the  most  part,  as  a  foreground,  a  dreary  waste  of  sand  and 
sagebrush,  with  here  and  there  jagged  outcrops  of  basaltic  rock  and  an  occasional  curi- 
ously split  lava  island,  while  the  background  consisted  of  the  distant  rim  of  enclosing 
mountains,  sometimes  so  far  away  as  to  be  scarcely  discernible  above  the  horizon.  It  was 
not  an  alluring  prospect,  not  such  as  to  invite  the  emigrant  to  plant  himself  there 
to  rear  a  home.  It  is  true,  that  was  not  the  real  Idaho,  but  the  fact  that  the  main 
roads  and  later  the  principal  railroads  across  the  State  traversed  the  treeless  and  almost 
waterless  sage  plain  of  the  Snake  delayed  the  agricultural  development  of  the  State 
a  generation.  The  man,  for  instance,  in  Fremont's  time — or  for  twenty-five  years  after, 
for  that  matter — who  would  have  suggested  that  the  great  Snake  River  would  one  day 

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be  diverted  from  the  bottom  of  its  600-foot  canyon  and  spread  upon  the  plain,  and  that 
the  vast  desolate  wastes  of  sand  would  be  covered  with  fields  of  waving  grass  and  grain, 
with  smiling  gardens  and  bending  orchards,  and  dotted  with  thriving  cities,  would  doubt- 
less have  been  considered  a  fit  subject  for  an  insane  asylum. 

What  may  be  called  the  modern  history  of  Idaho  begins  with  the  gold  discovery  on 
the  Clearwater  heretofore  mentioned.  The  following  account  covering  the  gold  rush  and 
the  organization  of  the  Territory  is  from  an  Idaho  official  publication  by  the  State 
Bureau  of  Immigration,  Labor  and  Statistics : 

"From  this  time  (I860)  until  1868,  when  Idaho  was  carved  into  its  present  form 
by  the  Federal  Government,  historic  events  came  so  thick  and  fast  that  the  minds  of 
the  historians  have  become  somewhat  confused,  and  scarcely  two  of  them  can  be  found 
who  agree.  The  principal  features,  however,  are  matters  of  record  that  cannot  be  destroyed, 
and  they  provide  some  very  interesting  reading.  The  great  rush  of  miners,  propectors, 
traders,  gamblers,  and  fortune-seekers  of  all  classes  and  from  all  countries  that  followed 
the  discovery  of  gold  in  1860  has  but  few  comparisons  in  the  world's  history  of  mineral 
discoveries.  The  overflow  from  the  gold  diggings  of  California,  which  were  discovered  ten 
years  previous,  and  where  a  horde  of  people  had  congregated  from  all  parts  of  the  world, 
all  flocked  to  the  Idaho  diggings.  Many  had  been  unfortunate  in  their  California  venture; 
some  had  become  homesick  and  left  as  a  sort  of  relief;  others  followed  the  throng  simply 
through  the  spirit  of  adventure,  while  others  were  out  strictly  for  gain;  and  it  is  not  to  be 
wondered  at,  when  one  considers  the  exciting  conditions  under  which  this  crowded  mass 
was  drawn  together,  the  manner  in  which  they  lived,  the  nervous  strain  that  was  con- 
stantly over  them,  that  more  or  less  tragedy  crept  into  the  events,  and  many  accounts 
of  tragic  bravery  and  hardships  have  been  recorded.  The  country  was  in  the  hands  of 
this  population  when,  on  March  3,  1863,  the  Federal  Government  organized  a  Territory 
comprising  all  that  is  now  embraced  in  the  States  of  Idaho  and  Montana,  and  including 
most  of  Wyoming,  and  named  it  Idaho.  It  had  an  area  of  more  than  300,000  square  miles, 
and  was  born  into  the  world  surrounded  by  most  exciting  conditions,  and  embracing  a 
country  that  was  filling  the  minds  of  the  world  with  wonder  and  amazement.  Important 
events  quickly  followed  the  organization  of  the  Territory.  The  mining  industry  had 
become  permanently  fixed  in  this  region  and  was  yielding  millions  in  gold.  Settlements 
sprang  up  at  favorable  points  in  the  valleys  along  the  streams.  Trading  points  were 
established,  great  stocks  of  merchandise  of  all  kinds  were  shipped  into  the  country,  and 
the  foundations  of  what  are  now  prosperous  cities  and  towns  were  laid.  New  gold  fields 
were  being  discovered  on  all  sides  and  the  population  was  shifting  from  one  point  to 
another,  following  the  richest  diggings.  The  great  gravel  bars,  with  their  rich  deposits, 
that  were  being  worked  in  the  Boise  basin  were  yielding  up  millions  in  gold,  and  were 
attracting  the  greatest  population  of  any  point  in  the  State.  The  vote  in  Idaho  City 
at  the  presidential  election  in  the  fall  of  1864  exceeded  16,000.  A  great,  eager,  wandering 
crowd  of  miners,  prospectors  and  adventurers  had  come  into  the  country  from  every  section 
of  the  Union." 

Lewiston  was  designated  the  capital  until  the  Territorial  legislature  should  determine 
otherwise,  and  the  first  legislature,  consisting  of  but  twenty  members,  met  there  in 
November,  1863.  As  the  Boise  basin  section  of  the  Territory  was  already  the  most 
populous,  the  fight  for  the  removal  of  the  capital  to  Boise  was  begun  at  the  first  session 
of  the  legislature.  It  failed  at  that  time,  but  was  renewed  on  the  convening  of  the  legis- 
lature a  year  later,  passed  and  signed  by  the  governor.  Lewiston  resorted  to  litigation, 
some  of  which  developed  some  humorous  features,  to  prevent  the  removal,  but  it  was  finally 
accomplished.  The  feeling  between  the  northern  and  southern  sections  of  the  State,  growing 
out  of  this  contest,  and  others  over  matters  that  arose  later,  was  acute  for  many  years, 
but  happily  it  has  now  practically  disappeared. 

In  1868  Idaho  was  reduced  to  its  present  form  and  size  by  an  act  of  Congress  creating 

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the  Territories  of  Montana  and  Wyoming.  After  the  country  east  of  the  main  range  of  the 
Rocky  Mountains  was  thus  cut  off,  Idaho  consisted  of  seven  counties,  viz:  Nez  Perce,  Sho- 
shone,  Idaho,  Boise,  Alturas,  Owyhee  and  Oneida.  In  1864-65  Idaho  was  the  center  of 
attraction  through  all  the  West,  owing  to  the  numerous  rich  placer  discoveries.  In  the 
half  dozen  years  succeeding  there  was  a  great  influx  of  people  into  the  Territory,  many 
of  whom  had  seen  service  in  the  Civil  War,  and  many  agricultural  settlements  sprang  up. 
In  this  period  many  rich  quartz  discoveries  were  also  made,  and  new  mining  camps  came 
into  existence.  This  increase  of  population  led  to  numerous  county  divisions,  until  the 
number  of  counties  has  grown  from  seven,  in  1864,  to  twenty-three  in  1909,  the  last  two  to 
be  created  being  Bonner  and  Twin  Falls,  in  1908.  The  former  is  the  northernmost  county 
in  the  State,  and  was  created  by  detaching  a  portion  of  Kootenai,  while  the  latter  was 
formerly  the  western  end  of  Cassia  County,  and  was  made  possible  by  the  great  Twin 
Falls  irrigation  project. 

Idaho  was  admitted  to  the  Union  July  3,  1890,  adding  the  forty-fifth  star  to  the  flag. 
Hon.  Geo.  L.  Shoup  was  at  that  time  Territorial  governor,  and  he  continued  in  the  office 
until  the  first  State  legislature  met,  when  he  resigned  and  was  elected  to  the  United  States 
Senate.  Hon.  Norman  B.  Willey  was  appointed  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  Governor 
Slioup,  and  he  held  the  office  until  January  1,  1893,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Hon.  J.  W. 
McConnell,  who  had  been  elected  for  the  regular  term.  Since  the  admission  to  statehood  the 
growth  and  development  of  Idaho  have  been  steady  and  rapid. 

The  population  of  Idaho,  as  shown  by  the  Federal  census  of  1870,  was  15,000;  in  1880 
it  was  32,000;  in  1890,  84,000;  in  1900,  162,000,  and  it  is  believed  at  this  time  to  be  not 
far  from  the  300,000  mark,  as  the  growth  from  immigration  alone  has  been  for  some  years 
past  at  the  rate  of  about  15,000  annually.  Up  to  1900  the  population  of  Idaho  was  almost 
wholly  rural,  and  it  is  still  largely  so,  but  in  the  past  nine  years  the  urban  population  has 
increased  at  an  astonishing  rate.  Boise  has  grown  from  5DOO  to  more  than  20,000,  Lew- 
iston  from  a  few  hundreds  to  10,000,  Idaho  Falls  from  1200  to  8000,  while  near  Shoshone 
Falls,  in  the  plain  where  six  years  ago  there  was  not  a  sign  of  civilization,  nothing  but  an 
expanse  of  sagebrush  as  far  as  the  vision  extended  in  every  direction,  now  stands  Twin 
Falls,  a  well-built,  substantial  city  of  more  than  5000  people.  Pocatello,  Nampa,  Caldwell, 
Coeur  d'Alene,  Payette,  Blackfoot  and  other  cities  have  made  a  fine  growth,  while  scores 
of  prosperous  villages  have  sprung  into  existence.  The  rural  growth  is  shown  by  the 
vote  of  Kootenai  County.  In  1904  the  total  was  5608,  while  in  1908  it  was  11,451  in  the 
same  territory,  the  county  having  meantime  been  divided. 

Idaho  has  an  area  of  84,600  square  miles,  510  of  which  are  covered  by  the  waters  of 
lakes,  the  largest  of  which  are  Bear,  Pend  D'Oreille,  Coeur  d'Alene  and  Priest's  lakes.  The 
State  lies  in  the  form  of  an  irregular  triangle,  the  longest  dimension  from  north  to  south 
measuring  487  miles,  while  the  breadth  from  east  to  west  along  the  southern  border  is  309 
miles,  and  on  the  northern  boundary  forty-eight  miles.  Owing  to  the  extremely  rough 
and  mountainous  character  of  the  central  portion  of  the  State,  which  has  not  yet  been 
pierced  by  a  north  and  south  railroad,  the  routes  of  travel  from  the  southern  to  the  "pan- 
handle" or  extreme  northern  part  of  the  State  are  circuitous,  thus  accentuating  the  really 
great  length  of  the  State  from  north  to  south.  A  facetious  individual  once  remarked  that 
"Idaho  is  bounded  on  the  south  by  the  forty-second  parallel  and  on  the  north  by  the  aurora 
borealis,"  an  assertion  that  any  one  who  has  ever  traveled  from  Oneida  or  Bear  Lake  counties 
to  Bonner  is  not  disposed  to  dispute.  The  largest  county  in  the  State  is  Idaho  County,  of 
which  Grangeville  is  the  county  seat.  It  has  an  area  of  10,800  square  miles.  The  smallest 
is  Bear  Lake  with  an  area  of  864  square  miles. 

Idaho  presents  many  striking  physical  features.  With  the  exception  of  a  small  section 
in  the  southeastern  part  of  the  State,  drained  by  the  Bear  River  and  its  tributaries  into  the 
Great  Salt  Lake,  the  entire  area  of  the  State  slopes  as  a  whole  to  the  west  and  is  drained 

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into  the  Pacific  through  the  Columbia  and  its  affluents.  The  State  is,  as  it  were,  the  upper 
portion  of  the  western  roof  of  the  continent,  the  comb  of  the  roof  being  the  Bitter  Root 
range  of  mountains,  which  forms  the  greater  part  of  the  eastern  boundary  of  the  State,  and 
for  much  of  that  distance  also  forms  the  continental  divide,  separating  the  waters  flowing 
to  the  Atlantic  from  those  flowing  to  the  Pacific.  As  would  follow  from  this  condition, 
the  lowest  point  in  the  State  is  found  at  Lewiston,  on  the  western  border,  at  the  confluence 
of  the  C'learwater  and  the  Snake,  where  the  elevation  above  sea  level  is  but  750  feet,  while 
the  crest  of  the  Bitter  Root  range  on  the  eastern  border  is  about  10,000  feet.  The  Sawtooth, 
the  highest  interior  range,  approximates  12,000  feet,  Mt.  Hyndnian,  the  highest  peak,  reach- 
ing an  elevation  of  12,078  feet. 

Considered  from  the  standpoint  of  its  physical  features,  the  State  naturally  divides 
itself  into  two  divisions,  roughly  separated  by  a  line  irregularly  drawn  across  the  State 
from  east  to  west  between  the  forty-fourth  and  the  forty-fifth  parallels.  The  northern  sec- 
tion is  in  the  main  a  region  of  mountain,  lake  and  forest,  with  in  some  parts  deep,  fer- 
tile valleys,  in  others  a  country  of  low,  rolling  hills,  well  adapted  to  the  raising  of  grain, 
and  in  yet  others  a  semi-prairie  country  originally  covered  with  grass  and  dotted  with 
groves  of  forest  trees.  The  mountains  are  almost  everywhere  wooded  to  their  summits, 
and  on  their  lower  slopes  the  same  splendid  timber  which  has  made  Oregon  and  Wash- 
ington famous,  is  abundant.  In  the  counties  of  Idaho,  Nez  Perce,  Shoshone,  Latah  and 
Kootenai  is  what  is  said  to  be  the  largest  and  finest  virgin  forest  of  white  pine  timber  now 
known  in  the  world.  There  are  also  millions  of  acres  of  pine,  fir,  cedar,  tamarack  and  hem- 
lock timber  that  are  less  accessible,  but  will  be  drawn  up  when  the  need  arises.  In  this 
section  of  the  State  are  also  located  the  great  lead  and  silver  mines — lead  mines  that  sup^ 
ply  half  the  lead  product  of  the  United  States.  The  mineralized  region  of,  Idaho  is  very 
large,  covering  thousands  of  square  miles,  most  of  which  is  practically  unprospected,  and 
those  best  informed  on  the  geology  of  the  State  predict  the  opening  in  this  new  region  of 
some  of  the  greatest  gold  and  silver  mines  in  the  world. 

One  feature  that  especially  distinguishes  this  section  of  the  State  from  the  southern 
section  is  the  more  abundant  rainfall  which  is  in  most  parts  of  it  sufficient  for  the  produc- 
tion of  crops  without  irrigation.  In  some  localities  the  precipitation  reaches  thirty-five 
inches  and  over  most  of  the  section  exceeds  eighteen  inches,  against  a  precipitation  in  the 
southern  section  of  from  seven  to  twelve  or  fifteen  inches.  This  condition  is  accounted  for  by 
the  configuration  of  the  land  and  the  prevailing  warm  ocean  winds.  These  bring  the  mois* 
ture  froiu  the  Pacific  over  the  lower  land  to  the  west,  and  on  approaching  the  higher  and 
cooler  mountain  region  the  moisture  is  condensed  and  falls  as  rain  or  snow.  The  high 
interior  mountain  ranges  intervening  thus  reduce  the  rainfall  of  the  southern  section. 

The  most  distinctive,  the  most  striking,  and  to  the  student  of  the  phenomena  of  nature 
perhaps  the  most  interesting,  portion  of  Idaho  is  that  great  southern  and  southeastern 
section  known  as  the  Snake  River  valley  and  especially  its  central  part,  known  as 
the  Snake  River  plain,  formerly  called  the  "Snake  River  desert."  The  Snake  is  the 
one  great  river  of  Idaho.  It  drains  not  only  all  the  southern  section  of  the  State,  except 
a  small  area  in  the  southeastern  corner,  but  much  of  the  northern  section  as  well,  its 
drainage  basin  including  about  seven-eighths  of  the  State.  .  Having  its  sources  in  the 
perpetual  snows  of  the  lofty  mountains  in  and  about  the  Yellowstone  National  Park,  and 
flowing  in  a  great  semi-circle,  concave  to  the  north,  through  or  touching  the  eastern, 
southern,  and  western  portions  of  the  State  for  more  than  GOO  miles,  this  stream  is  at 
once  the  State's  greatest  wonder  and  the  life  and  vivifying  power  of  the  vast  arid  plain  on 
either  side.  Its  course  in  Idaho  until  the  mouth  of  the  Weiser  is  reached  is  through  a 
generally  level  plain,  varying  in  width  from  fifty  to  100  miles  and  flanked  by  rugged  moun- 
tains. In  this  plain  is  located  most  of  the  irrigated  land  of  the  State,  and  it  is  also  the 
scene  of  the  stupendous  irrigating  projects  now  under  way  and  others  in  contemplation. 
From  an  elevation  of  about  2000  feet  at  the  western  border  of  the  State  the  great  plain  of 
the  Snake  gradually  rises  to  an  elevation  in  the  Teton  basin  on  the  Wyoming  line  of  6000 
feet.  At  Milner,  Cassia  County,  the  point  of  diversion  for  the  Twin  Falls  North  and  South 
side  canals,  the  river,  whose  banks  to  this  point  have  been  generally  low,  enters  the  famous 
canyon,  and  in  the  next  thirty  miles  makes  a  descent  of  over  1000  feet,  the  three  princi- 
pal falls  being  Twin  Falls,  Shoshone  Falls  and  Auger  Falls,  their  respective  heights  being 
134  feet,  210  feet  and  139  feet.  These  falls,  with  other  falls  and  rapids  of  less  height 
along  the  stream  both  above  and  below,  afford  the  finest  and  greatest  power  sites  in  the 
United  States,  Niagara  alone  excepted.  Extensive  power  plants  are  now  in  operation  at 
Idaho  Falls,  American  Falls,  Shoshone  Falls  and  Swan  Falls,  with  several  others  under 
construction  or  in  contemplation.  A  few  miles  below  Weiser  the  river  enters  one  of  the 

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most  remarkable  canyons  in  the  United  States,  comparable  only  to  the  Grand  Canyon  of  the 
Colorado  in  grandeur,  and  in  some  places  exceeding  it  in  depth,  and  flows  through  it 
for  about  200  miles. 

In  obedience  to  natural  laws  the  growth  and  progress  of  irrigation  in  this  arid  section 
has  been  along  the  lines  of  least  resistance.  The  earliest  settlers,  having  the  whole  region 
from  which  to  select,  established  themselves  mainly  along  the  smaller  streams  where  the 
water  could  be  diverted  to  fertile  lands  near  at  hand  with  the  least  labor  and  expense.  In 
that  way  the  narrow  valley  and  scattered  spots  of  fertile  soil  at  the  base  of  the  mountains, 
marking  the  emergence  of  the  smaller  streams  from  the  canyons,  were  settled,  and  with  them 
favored  spots  along  the  larger  streams,  including  the  upper  courses  of  the  Snake  itself. 
As  settlement  progressed  opportunities  for  individual  accomplishment  in  this  line  became 
fewer,  and  for  it  was  substituted  community  or  company  effort,  many  persons  uniting  in 
the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a  canal,  and  sharing  the  waters  it  conveyed.  In  this 
way  lands  aggregating  hundreds  of  thousands  of  acres  were  brought  under  water.  These 
operations  entirely  exhausted  the  natural  flow  of  many  of  the  smaller  streams,  while  the 
problem  of  making  available  the  still  abundant  waters  of  some  of  the  larger  streams,  and 
especially  the  Snake,  was  such  a  stupendous  one  that  it  seemed  impossible  of  solution.  Then 
out  of  the  needs  of  the  situation  came  the  Carey  act,  and  later  the  national  irrigation  law, 
or  reclamation  act,  under  which  the  Government  undertakes  the  irrigation  of  the  land  and 
allows  the  settler  ten  years  in  which  to  repay  the  cost. 

Until  after  these  laws  were  enacted  the  only  really  large  and  compact  irrigated  areas  in 
Idaho  were  those  in  the  upper  Snake  River  valley,  from  a  few  miles  above  St.  Anthony  to 
a  short  distance  below  Blackfoot,  and  those  along  the  Boise,  Payette  and  Weiser  rivers 
in  western  Idaho.  Now,  hoAvever,  additional  hundreds  of  thousands  of  acres  of  the 
parched  and  thirsty  desert  lands  along  500  miles  of  the  winding  course  of  the  mighty  Snake 
have  yielded  up  their  somber  covering  of  greenish  brown  sagebrush  and  substituted  for  it 
smiling  fields  of  grass,  grain  and  vegetables,  dotted  here  and  there  with  thriving  towns, 
and  the  groves,  orchards,  country  homes,  schools  and  churches  of  a  prosperous  and  happy 
people.  The  near  future  will  see  wrought  on  other  hundreds  of  thousands  of  acres  the  same 
transformation,  for  irrigation  in  Idaho  is  yet  in  its  early  stages. 

The  Twin  Falls,  North  and  South  sides,  Minidoka,  American  Falls,  Marsh  Creek,  Glenn'a 
Ferry  and  Clover  Creek  projects,  which  have  been  practically  completed  and  settled  since  the 
passage  of  the  Carey  and  reclamation  acts,  cover  700,000  acres.  Then  the  Payette-Boise, 
Big  Wood  River,  Richfield  and  Salmon  River  tracts,  all  approaching  completion,  cover 
500,009  acres  more,  while  projects  on  which  work  has  begun  or  will  begin  soon  are  the 
Big  Lost  River,  Twin  Falls-Bruneau,  West  End  Twin  Falls,  Owyhee,  Goose  Creek,  Raft  River, 
and  many  others,  aggregating  probably  1,000,000  acres.  If  the  record  of  what  has 
already  been  done  in  this  line  is  almost  beyond  belief,  the  future  indeed  staggers  the  imagina- 
tion, for,  reckless  as  the  statement  may  seem,  irrigation  in  Idaho  is  yet  in  its  early  stages. 
When  its  full  fruition  has  been  reached  the  Gem  State  will  have  under  irrigation  an  area 
rivaling  that  of  the  Nile  valley,  where  to  the  portion  irrigated  by  the  natural  overflow  of 
that  great  river  has  been  added  5,000,000  acres  of  former  desert  land,  the  watering  of 
which  was  made  possible  by  the  gigantic  dam  at  Assuan  and  the  lesser  one  at  Assuit. 

Beginning  in  Fremont  County,  at  the  extreme  northeastern  corner  of  the  State,  is  a 
belt  of  volcanic  country  that  stretches  southwest  across  Idaho  and  Nevada  and  into  Cali- 
fornia. It  is  1000  miles  long  and  in  some  places  exceeds  100  miles  in  width.  All  over 
it  are  scattered  unnumbered  craters,  or  vents,  from  which  at  intervals  through  a  period 
covering  perhaps  tens  of  thousands  of  years  streams  of  molten  lava  were  sent,  the  remains 
of  which  are  still  found  over  most  of  its  area.  Over  most  of  the  belt  in  Idaho  these  lava 
flows  are  very  ancient,  most  of  them  occurring  before  or  during  the  geologic  period  when 
the  most  of  what  is  now  the  Snake  River  valley  was  a  vast  lake  or  succession  of  lakes. 
In  some  places  the  lava  is  not  found,  due  in  some  instances  probably  to  the  lava  flow  never 
having  reached  those  spots  and  in  others  to  its  having  been  removed  by  erosion.  In  the  ages 
that  have  passed  this  lava  has,  by  the  action  of  the  elements,  become  to  a  large  degree 
decomposed  and  disintegrated  on  the  surface  and  at  all  exposed  points,  and  this  matter,  by 
commingling  with  the  material  brought  down  from  the  mountains  and  the  later  decaying 
vegetation  of  centuries,  has  formed  the  fine,  ashy,  sandy  soil  whose  fertility  is  the  marvel 
of  the  present  day.  One  of  the  wonders  of  this  Snake  River  soil  is  the  exceeding  fineness 
of  its  particles  and  the  remarkable  uniformity  of  its  distribution  over  great  areas  of  the 
underlying  lava.  This  is  explained  by  the  fact  that  it  is  largely  a  wind-blown  soil,  neither 
more  nor  less  than  the  deposits  of  centuries  of  dust-laden  winds.  Over  the  lava,  sometimes 
between  successive  flows,  and  covering  much  of  the  plain,  are  the  ancient  lake  deposits  of 
sand,  gravel,  clay,  etc.  These  are  in  some  places  100  feet  thick,  usually  much  less,  and 
mostly  underlie  or  are  mingled  with  the  dust  deposit.  Such  a  soil  without  water  is  a 

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desert.     Give  it  water,  and  not  even  the  soil  of  the  valley  of  the  Nile  in  the  time  of  the 
Pharoahs  was  richer  in  the  essentials  of  plant  growth. 

The  five  chief  industries  of  Idaho  in  order  of  their  importance  as  to  value  of  product 
are  mining,  agriculture,  stock-growing,  lumbering  and  horticulture.  The  lands  of  the  State 
have  not  been  fully  surveyed,  but  the  State  authorities  have  approximately  classified  the 
acreage  as  follows : 

Agricultural   lands    11,000,000 

i  Grazing    lands    20,000,000 

Timbered   lands    20,000,000 

Mineral    lands    6,000,000 

The  mines  yield  about  $25,000,000  annually,  more  than  two-thirds  of  which  is  produced 
in  Shoshone  County.  The  mineral  resources  of  the  State  are  enormous,  and  that  the  mining 
industry  will  assume  much  greater  proportions  in  the  near  future  seems  certain.  The  State 
has  produced  $250,000,000  in  gold  from  its  placers  alone.  Lead  is  now  the  most  important 
product,  but  the  State  is  also  rich  in  gold,  silver,  copper  and  coal.  Coal  has  not  been  mined, 
except  in  a  few  localities  for  local  consumption,  but  recent  discoveries  have  proved  its  exis- 
tence in  large  quantities  in  several  places. 

The  value  of  agricultural  products  of  the  State  approximates  $20,000,000  annually, 
and  this  amount  is  increasing  by  leaps  and  bounds,  not  only  in  the  newly  irrigated  sections, 
but  also  in  the  rich  agricultural  valleys  and  plains  of  the  Clearwater  and  other  streams 
in  the  northern  part  of  the  State.  On  account  of  the  great  stock  industry,  hay,  principally 
alfalfa,  is  the  leading  product,  followed  in  order  of  value  by  wheat,  oats,  barley,  potatoes  and 
flax.  Statistics  show  the  average  yield  of  cereals  per  acre  in  Idaho  to  be  nearly  double  the 
average  yield  for  the  United  States.  The  agricultural  conditions  in  the  humid  and  irrigated 
sections  of  the  State  are,  of  course,  entirely  different,  but  both  are  equally  flourishing  and 
prosperous.  About  half  the  agricultural  land  of  the  State  is  in  the  irrigated  section  and  half 
in  the  humid  northern  section.  The  "Man  with  the  Hoe"  is  an  important  individual  in 
Idaho,  and  he  will  carve  his  name  large  and  high  on  the  rock  typical  of  her  future  greatness. 

Idaho's  earliest  industry  was  placer  mining  and  her  first  population  miners.  Then  she 
became  a  great  horse  and  cattle  range,  but  with  the  coming  of  the  railroads  in  the  early 
eighties  came  the  sheep  man,  and  he  flourished  so  exceedingly  that  now  the  sheep  outnumber 
all  other  domestic  animals  and  exceed  either  the  cattle  or  the  horses  in  value.  The  value  of 
the  live  stock  of  the  State  now  approaches  thirty  millions  of  dollars,  the  sheep  being  valued 
at  about  one- third  of  the  amount.  The  conditions  for  stock-raising  in  the  State  are  ideal, 
and  the  industry  has  been  and  continues  to  be  exceedingly  prosperous  and  profitable.  This 
industry  and  that  of  general  farming  are  now  much  more  closely  allied  than  they  were  even 
ten  years  ago,  and  the  bond  of  union  and  interdependence  will  doubtless  continue  to  grow 
stronger  as  the  State  becomes  more  closely  settled. 

The  lumber  industry  in  Idaho  is  yet  in  its  infancy,  but  it  is  one  that  in  the  near 
future  promises  to  attain  considerable  proportions.  The  annual  product  of  the  mills  is 
now  close  to  three  millions  of  dollars,  two-thirds  of  which  is  in  the  two  counties  of 
Kootenai  and  Bonner,  in  the  extreme  north  end  of  the  State.  There  is  comparatively  little 
timber  in  the  southern  section  of  the  State,  the  forest  growth  occurring  mainly  in  scattered 
patches  on  the  north  slopes  of  the  various  mountain  ranges,  although  there  is  considerable 
good  timber  in  the  mountains  along  the  Wyoming  border  of  the  State.  The  magnificent 
white  pine  forests,  as  well  as  the  millions  of  acres  of  fir,  cedar,  tamarack  and  hemlock 
iti  the  counties  of  Shoshone,  Nez  Perce  and  Idaho  are  without  railroads  and  practically 
untouched.  They  will,  when  the  march  of  development  reaches  them  and  puts  their  prod- 
uct on  the  market,  make  Idaho  famous  as  a  lumber  State. 

In  spite  of  the  wonderfully  rapid  advance  of  all  Idaho  industries  in  recent  years 
that  of  horticulture  has  doubtless  relatively  outstripped  them  all.  This  industry  was  late 
in  getting  a  start  for  the  reason  that  few  of  the  early  population,  miners  and  stock  men, 
ever  planted  a  tree  except  for  shade,  so  that  it  was  twenty  years  after  the  settlement  of 
the  State  before  it  was  realized  that  Idaho  was  well  adapted  to  horticultm-e  and  fruit 
raising.  It  is  now  known  that  Idaho  is  certainly  destined  to  become  one  of  the  fore- 
most fruit-raising  States  in  the  Union.  The  moderate  altitude,  the  fertile  soil,  the  genial 
climate,  and,  more  than  all,  the  almost  constant  sunshine  throughout  the  growing  and 
ripening  season,  produce  a  perfection  in  texture,  flavor  and  coloring  that  makes  Idaho 
fruit  in  great  demand  in  all  the  best  markets  of  the  country.  One  of  the  distinguishing 
features  of  Idaho  fruit  that  have  commanded  attention  is  its  soundness  and  remarkable 
freedom  from  insect  pests.  This  is  especially  true  of  the  arid  southern  half  of  the  State. 
Apples,  pears  and  most  berries  thrive  and  yield  abundantly  in  all  the  agricultural  parts 

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of  the  State,  and  peaches,  plums,  prunes,  apricots,  cherries  and  grapes  are  equally  sue- 
cessful  where  the  elevation  is  not  too  great.  Idaho  is  a  State  of  young  orchards,  probably 
not  more  than  half  the  trees  in  the  State  having  yet  reached  bearing  age,  and  thou- 
sands of  acres  are  being  set  out  every  year.  Latah,  Nez  Perce,  Washington,  Canyon,  Ada, 
Cassia  and  Bingham  have  heretofore  been  the  largest  fruit-growing  counties,  but  the  recent 
irrigation  activity  in  Twin  Falls,  Lincoln,  Canyon  and  Ada  counties,  and  the  perfect 
adaptation  of  these  new  lands  to  fruit-raising  on  a  commercial  scale,  have  stimulated 
orchard-planting  to  a  degree  hitherto  unknown.  The  result  of  all  this  will  be  that  in  the 
very  near  future  the  extent  and  importance  of  the  horticultural  industry  in  Idaho  will 
far  exceed  even  the  wildest  dreams  of  the  intelligent  and  enthusiastic  men  who  laid  its 
foundations. 

The  climate  and  healthfulness  of  Idaho  are  one  of  her  chiefest  joys.  If  not  strictly 
a  cash  asset,  the  comfort  and  pleasure  they  afford  her  inhabitants  and  the  sojourner 
within  her  gates,  certainly  render  them  an  asset  of  no  mean  value.  With  an  altitude 
varying  from  750  feet  to  12,000  feet  above  the  sea  level  almost  any  temperature  desired 
can  be  found.  On.  the  plains  and  in  the  lower  valleys  the  winters  are  not  severe  and  the 
summers,  though  warm,  are  not  enervating  because  of  the  cool  nights.  Destructive  storms 
are  unknown.  In  the  higher  altitudes  among  the  mountains  the  winters  are  long  and  cold 
and  the  snowfall  very  heavy,  often  from  seven  to  ten  feet.  Here  the  summers  are  short 
and  pleasant.  Everywhere  the  air  is  remarkably  dry,  pure,  clear  and  invigorating,  and 
in  the  arid  region  the  high  percentage  of  sunshine  invites  to  an  outdoor  life,  all  of  which  is 
highly  conducive  to  continued  good  health  and  longevity. 

Idaho  is  also  favored  in  the  matter  of  magnificent  scenery.  Her  beauties  of  mountain, 
lake,  stream  and  forest  are  not  surpassed  anywhere,  even  in  storied  Switzerland  and 
Italy.  Her  far-famed  Shoshone  Falls  exceed  Niagara  in  height  and  have  a  weird  gran- 
deur all  their  own,  while  her  canyons,  dark,  deep,  and  of  vast  extent,  are  second  on  this 
continent  only  to  those  awful  abysses  along  whose  bottom  plunges  the  Colorado. 


HISTORICAL    SKETCH   OF   THE    WOOD   LIVE    STOCK    COMPANY,   LIMITED, 

SPENCER,  IDAHO 

In  the  early  '80's  the  late  J.  D.  Wood,  who  was  at  that  time  mining  in  Idaho,  began 
the  acquirement  of  land  in  Custer  and  Fremont  counties  with  a  view  to  developing  a  small 
live-stock  interest.  In  his  youth  and  early  manhood  he  had  bought  cattle  throughout 
Missouri  and  Illinois  and  driven  them  to  the  Chicago  market,  thus  acquiring  a  knowledge 
and  taste  for  the  live-stock  business  which  at  a  later  date  bore  abundant  fruit. 

Mr.  Wood's  original  intention  was  to  engage  in  the  cattle  business,  but,  owing  to  the 
extremely  high  price  of  cattle  at  that  time,  he  decided  to  try  sheep.  His  first  venture  was 
the  bringing  overland  by  trail  from  Umatilla  County,  Ore.,  of  6,000  head  of  young  ewes. 
These  he  placed  upon  the  range  near  his  ranch  in  Pahsimaroi  Valley,  a  tributary  to  Salmon 
River,  Custer  County,  Idaho. 

In  1887  Mr.  Wood  sold  a  one-fourth  interest  in  his  live-stock  business  to  his  step-son, 
F.  J.  Hagenbarth,  who  assumed  the  management  of  those  interests.  The  business  steadily 
grew  until  1896,  when  the  company  was  incorporated  as  the  Wood  Live  Stock  Company,  at 
which  time  Mr.  H.  C.  Wood  and  J.  Barnett  acquired  interests  in  the  property. 

The  years  1893  to  1896,  inclusive,  were  very  lean  years  for  sheep  husbandry,  owing  to 
the  passage  of  the  Wilson  Bill,  which  removed  the  duty  from  wool.  However,  in  1896,  Mr. 
Wood  and  the  others  interested,  being  firm  believers  of  the  election  of  Mr.  McKinley  and  of 
the  inauguration  of  a  protective  tariff  era,  had  trailed  up  from  Oregon  over  50,000  head  of 
young  ewes.  The  sheep  were  bought  at  an  average  price,  laid  down  in  Idaho,  of  $1.35. 
Immediately  after  the  election,  during  the  months  of  November  and  December,  the  company 
disposed  of  a  large  number  of  these  sheep  at  $3.50  and  $4.00  per  head. 

The  following  years  were  very  prosperous,  and  in  1900  the  capital  stock  of  the  company 
was  increased  to  $500,000,  fully  paid  up.  During  the  interim  since  the  beginning  of  the 
business,  the  company  began  the  systematic  acquirement  of  lands  and  had  extended  their 
operations  so  as  to  cover  parts  of  Custer  and  Lemhi  counties  and  had  acquired  interests  in 
Bingham,  Blaine  and  Fremont  counties. 

One  reason  of  the  great  success  attained  by  Mr.  Wood  and  associates  in  the  live-stock 
business  was  their  early  realization  of  the  fact  that  young  lambs  four  months  old  could  be 
shipped  from  the  Western  ranges  to  the  Eastern  markets  and  sold  at  approximately  as  high 
a  price  as  two-  or  three-year-old  wethers.  The  company  engaged  in  this  business  on  a 
large  scale  and  were  shipping  many  train-loads  per  annum.  The  present  year,  1909, 
the  company  will  sell  on  the  Chicago  market  upwards  of  60,000  head  of  young  lambs,  which 
will  net  them,  all  expenses  paid,  about  $3.50  per  head. 

In  conjunction  with  the  growing  of  lambs  for  the  mutton  trade  the  company  has 
imported  from  England  into  the  United  States  the  best  strains  of  mutton  blood  obtainable  in 
England.  They  now  have  on  their  range,  near  Spencer,  Idaho,  the  largest  and  best  flock, 
size  considered,  of  pure  registered  Hampshires  in  the  world.  The  lambs  from  this  flock 
readily  top  the  Eastern  market. 

The  Wood  Live  Stock  Company  was  the  first  concern  to  introduce  on  the  open  range 
the  shearing  of  sheep  in  large  numbers  by  the  use  of  machinery.  They  had  in  operation 
last  year  three  of  these  plants,  two  in  Idaho  and  one  in  Montana. 

Since  1900  the  company  has  extended  the  area  of  its  activities  into  Madison  and  Beaver 
Head  counties,  Montana,  where  they  have  acquired  extensive  real-estate  and  range  holdings. 
At  the  present  time  it  owns  in  fee  simple  and  controls  by  lease  or  otherwise,  around  100,000 
acres  of  choice  farming  and  grazing  lands  in  Idaho  and  Montana.  The  summer  range  is 
located  along  a  spur  of  the  Rocky  Mountains  lying  southwesterly  from  the  Yellowstone 
National  Park.  The  headquarters  and  general  offices  of  the  company  are  at  Spencer,  Idaho. 
The  company  practically  owns  this  town  where  it  has  erected  a  large  three-story  office  and 
commissary  building  and  has  built  cottages  for  the  use  of  the  foremen  and  their  families. 
Its  buildings  can  be  readily  distinguished  by  their  color,  which  is  uniformly  yellow  trimmed 
with  white.  Here  the  organization  and  system  which  prevail  throughout  the  activities  of 
the  company  can  be  readily  noticed.  The  commissary  department  in  itself  is  interesting. 
Everything  that  could  be  required  for  use  on  the  range  or  ranch  is  there  to  be  found  in 
quantity.  Canned  stuffs,  sugar,  etc.,  are  bought  in  carload  lots  and  distributed  from  this 
point.  Hardware,  machinery,  wagons,  etc.,  are  kept  in  quantity.  The  company  manufactures 
its  own  sheep  wagons,  which  are  models  of  convenience  and  comfort. 

In  addition  to  the  sheep  interests,  the  company  is  engaged  in  a  large  way  in  the  breed- 
ing of  horses  and  the  handling  of  cattle.  They  Avere  likewise  largely  interested  in  the 
cattle  and  lamb  business  in  Old  Mexico.  These  interests  have,  however,  been  recently  sold. 

The  personnel  which  comprises  the  actual  management  of  the  company  at  the  present 
time  is  as  follows:  F.  J.  Hagenbarth,  president  and  manager  (Mr.  Hagenbarth  succeeded 

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H.    C.    WOOD 


the  late  J.  D.  Wood  as  president)  ;  Mr.  H.  C.  Wood,  vice-president  and  assistant  manager; 
Mr.  J.  Barnett,  treasurer;  Mr.  C.  W.  Hardy,  secretary;  Mr.  John  W.  Hart,  director  and 
ranch  superintendent;  Mr.  Sam  Sample,  range  superintendent. 

At  the  present  time  the  net  resources  of  the  company  amount  to  about  $2,000,000. 
The  annual  output  in  the  way  of  wool,  mutton,  cattle,  horses  and  products  of  various  kinds 
from  the  ranches  will  approximate  $500,000.  The  annual  pay-roll  and  expense  account  is 
about  $200,000. 

The  brief  history  of  this  company  is  the  best  possible  commentary  that  could  be  had  on 
the  opportunities  and  possibilities  of  acquiring  wealth  and  permanent  interests  that  have 
been  and  are  still  afforded  by  the  magnificent  State  of  Idaho.  Mr.  J.  D.  Wood's  original 
investment  in  the  ranch  and  live-stock  business,  when  inventoried  in  1885,  amounted  to  only 
$20,000. 


HUGH  C.  WOOD 

Mr.  Hugh  C.  Wood  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  September 
5th,  1874.  His  father  was  the  late  J.  D.  Wood,  prominent  in  mining 
and  live  stock  circles  in  the  inter-mountain  region.  His  mother  was 
Catherine  Wood,  who  was  a  pioneer  in  the  early  history  of  Denver, 
Salt  Lake  City  and  Virginia  City,  Montana. 

Mr.  Wood's  primary  education  was  acquired  in  the  public  schools 
of  Idaho  and  later  he  spent  two  years  at  All  Hallow's  College  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  completed  his  education  at  the  University  of  Notre 
Dame,  Indiana. 

In  1899  he  married  Rosa  Hulaniski  of  Ogden,  Utah,  a  daughter  of 
Hon.  E.  T.  Hulaniski.  The  union  has  been  a  happy  one  and  is  abund- 
antly blessed  by  two  sons,  David  Edmond  and  Francis  Hugh,  and  a 
daughter,  Marcia. 

Since  leaving  college  Mr.  Wood  has  been  prominently  and  actively 
identified  in  the  various  interests  held  by  his  father,  J.  D.  Wood,  and 
his  brother,  F.  J.  Hagenbarth.  He  maintains  a  summer  home  at 
Spencer,  Idaho,  where  he  is  largely  interested  in  the  Wood  Live  Stock 
Company,  and  the  Wood-Hagenbarth  Cattle  Company. 

Mr.  Wood  has  never  held  any  political  office  except  that  of  com 
missioner  of  Labor  in  the  State  of  Idaho,  though  he  has  at  all  times 
been  prominently  identified  with  the  interests  of  and  been  an  active 
worker  in  the  ranks  of  the  Republican  party  of  Idaho. 

Mr.  Wood  and  his  wife  are  both  of  a  social  bent  and  are  well 
known  in  society  circles  both  in  Ogden  and  Salt  Lake  City.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Alta  Club  of  this  city,  and  has  attained  a  high  rank 
in  the  Masonic  fraternity,  having  taken  all  but  the  last  degree. 

At  the  present  time  Mr.  Wood  is  vice-president  and  assistant  mana- 
ger of  the  Wood  Live  Stock  Company,  vice-president  of  the  Wood- 
Hagenbarth  Cattle  Company,  treasurer  and  director  of  the  J.  D.  Wood 
Company  and  holds  directorships  or  official  positions  in  many  of  the 
larger  mining  companies  of  this  State  and  Nevada.  He  is  a  young 
man  and  has  early  fulfilled  the  promise  of  a  bright  youth,  and  as  his- 
tory is  made  he  will  no  doubt  enroll  his  name  high  among  the  illus- 
trious native  sons  of  the  West. 

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A  SHEEP  RANCH  AND  ITS  OWNER 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Bonnemort  is  without  doubt  one  of  the  most  remarkable 
women  of  the  inter-mountain  country.  She  is  a  native  of  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
and  came  from  the  land  of  "Bobby"  Burns  direct  to  Utah  in  1861.  She  made 
the  journey  alone,  but  here  joined  her  father,  who  had  preceded  her  to  America. 

In  1868  she  married  James  Ferguson,  then  a  telegraph  operator  in  the  employ 
of  the  Government,  and  stationed  at  Camp  Floyd  in  Cedar  Valley,  Utah  County, 
about  forty-five  miles  southwest  of  Salt  Lake  City.  Soon  after  the  young  hus- 
band and  wife  took  up  a  homestead  in  the  beautiful  and  fertile  Deep  Creek  Val- 
ley, near  Ibapah,  not  far  from  the  Nevada  State  line,  and  there  established  a 
home.  Remote  as  the  region  now  is  from  centers  of  population  and  from  com- 
munication by  rail,  it  is  not  nearly  so  much  so  as  it  was  then.  Strong  indeed 
must  have  been  the  nature  and  resolute  the  character  of  the  young  woman  thus 
transplanted  from  a  populous  city  of  the  Old  World  to  this  oasis  in  the  vast 
reaches  of  desert  and  mountain  in  the  interior  basin  of  the  North  American  con- 
tinent, not  to  have  quailed  at  the  isolation  as  well  as  at  the  want  of  the  comforts, 
conveniences  and  privileges  necessarily  absent  in  a  new  community  having  a 
population  so  few  in  numbers  and  so  widely  scattered.  But  there  was  no  fal- 
tering. They  had  each  other  and  their  small  circle  of  friends,  they  felt  that 
their  worldly  affairs  were  on  the  road  to  prosperity,  and  as  time  wrent  by  the 
comfortable  home  was  brightened  by  the  advent  of  four  little  daughters.  Thus 
their  affairs  ran  on  smoothly  and  happily  until  interrupted  by  the  death  of  the 
husband  and  father  in  1881. 

For  some  years  before  Mr.  Ferguson's  death  he  had  been  engaged  in  the 
sheep  business,  and  following  that  sad  event  the  wridow  continued  the  business 
with  success  under  her  own  direction  for  three  years,  when  she  married  Edgar 
Bonnemort,  also  engaged  in  the  sheep  business.  Some  four  years  later  the 
property  on  Brigham  Street,  Salt  Lake  City,  on  which  the  handsome  Bonnemort 
home  now  stands,  was  purchased  and  from  that  time  the  family  resided  in  Salt 
Lake  most  of  the  time. 

From  time  to  time  land  adjoining  the  original  homestead  in  Deep  Creek 
Valley  was  acquired,  until  the  ranch  now  consists  of  800  acres,  well  improved 
and  well  stocked,  with  an  ample  supply  of  water  for  irrigation  taken  from  Deep 


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Creek  and  an  abundant  supply  for  domestic  and  stock  purposes  from  flowing 
wells.  In  addition  to  the  grazing  and  other  varied  products  of  the  ranch,  about 
400  tons  of  hay  are  cut  annually.  This  is  fed  mostly  to  cattle,  large  numbers  of 
which,  together  with  many  horses,  are  kept.  Most  important,  however,  are  the 
many  thousands  of  sheep  which  in  the  winter  range  in  the  valley  and  the  adja- 
cent low  hills  and  plains,  and  in  summer  are  taken  to  the  summer  ranges  in  the 
hills  and  mountains  of  northern  Utah  and  southern  Idaho.  This  branch  of  the 
business  has  been  especially  successful  and  profitable. 

Mr.  Bonnemort  died  in  1899.  An  ordinary  woman,  situated  as  Mrs.  Bonne- 
mort  then  found  herself,  and  possessed  of  her  abundant  financial  resources,  would 
have  sold  the  flocks  and  the  ranch  and  devoted  her  life  to  the  enjoyment  of  a 
well-earned  rest  and  a  well-deserved  respite  from  business  cares.  But  Mrs.  Bon- 
nemort is  not  an  ordinary  woman.  She  sold  neither  the  flocks  nor  the  land,  but 


COZY    NOOK    IN    BONNEMORT    RANCH    HOUSE 

has  continued  through  the  ten  years  of  her  second  widowhood  to  increase  the 
one  and  improve  the  other.  She  oversees  personally  the  large  volume  of  business 
this  entails,  and  that  she  has  been  continuously  successful  proves  the  possession 
of  rare  business  ability.  She  makes  occasional  trips  to  the  ranch  and  the  ranges, 
and  keeps  constantly  in  touch  with  every  phase  of  the  extensive  business. 

Nor  is  her  business  activity  maintained  at  the  sacrifice  of  the  social  side  of 
life.  Her  beautiful  home  at  Brigham  and  Eighth  East  Streets  is  the  center  of  a 
social  life  and  hospitality  as  remarkable  for  its  breadth  as  for  its  tasteful  and 
elegant  simplicity.  What  she  quietly  and  without  ostentation  dispenses  each 
year  in  charity  would  be  considered  by  the  average  man  a  snug  annual  salary. 
Her  four  daughters  are  married,  their  names  and  residences  being  as  follows: 
Mrs.  Ira  Hillman,  Mammoth,  Utah;  Mrs.  N.  A.  Dunyon,  Salt  Lake  City;  Mrs. 
R.  V.  Chamberlain,  Provo,  Utah ;  Mrs.  F.  L.  Albritton,  Kalispell,  Montana. 

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STORY  OF  ONE  BANK 

From  a  modest  beginning  in  a  frontier  town  to  the  largest  and 
strongest  institution  in  a  wealthy  and  growing  State  is  an  enviable 
record,  but  such  is  the  history  of  the  Boise  City  National  Bank.  The 
bank  was  organized  in  April,  1886,  by  Alfred  Eoff,  H.  B.  Eastman, 
Joseph  Perrault,  and  others,  with  a  capital  of  $100,000.  Mr.  Eoff, 
(well  known  to  the  bankers  of  the  Pacific  Coast)  was  elected  cashier  and 
manager  and  occupied  that  position  for  over  twenty  years,  and  until 
the  sale  of  the  stock  of  the  bank  to  the  present  management  in  July, 
1906.  In  the  death  of  Mr.  Eoff  last  year  the  community  suffered  the 
loss  of  a  valuable  citizen  and  the  banking  fraternity  a  sound  financier 
of  the  old  school.  The  other  officers  were:  Henry  Wadsworth,  presi- 
dent ;  H.  B.  Eastman,  vice-president ;  Joseph  Perrault,  assistant  cashier. 
In  July,  1888,  Mr.  Perrault  resigned  and  Walter  S.  Bruce  was  elected 
to  succeed  him.  The  only  changes  in  the  officers  from  this  time  until 
the  change  in  the  control  was  the  election  of  H.  B.  Eastman  as  presi- 
dent in  January,  1904,  to  succeed  Mr.  Wadsworth,  and  the  election  of 
Mr.  Began  as  vice-president. 

In  July,  1906,  the  control  of  the  bank  passed  into  new  hands,  all 
of  the  old  directors  retiring  except  Mr.  Regan  and  Mr.  Eastman.  The 
new  officers  elected  were :  F.  R.  Coffin,  president ;  Timothy  Regan,  vice- 
president;  J.  E.  Clinton,  Jr.,  cashier;  Fred  Brown  and  B.  W.  Walker, 
assistant  cashiers.  The  business  and  influence  of  the  institution  has 
steadily  increased  and  the  management  has  established  a  reputation 
for  being  progressive  and  conservative.  This  bank  is  one  of  the  few 
institutions  that  can  show  an  uninterrupted  period  of  growth.  During 
the  financial  flurry  of  last  year  their  deposits  showed  a  marked  increase, 
and  they  were  enabled  to  extend  aid  to  a  great  number  of  banks  in 
southern  Idaho.  This  fact,  together  with  the  general  policy  of  caring 
for  their  correspondents  and  customers,  has  given  them  connections 
with  nearly  every  point  in  the  Northwest. 

The  Boise  City  National  Bank  is  the  government  depository  for  the 
State  of  Idaho  and  has  been  specially  designated  as  depository  for  the 
post  office  department.  Their  capital  is  now  $250,000,  with  a  surplus 
and  profits  of  $150,000.  A  recent  statement  shows  their  deposits  two 
million  and  a  quarter;  loans  over  a  million  and  a  half,  and  cash  and 
sight  exchange  one  million,  making  their  reserve  over  40  per  cent. 

The  bank  occupies  its  own  modern  office  building,  a  massive  stone 
structure  worth  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars.  The  entire  fourth  floor 
of  the  building  is  occupied  by  the  Boise  Commercial  Club,  it  having 
been  prepared  for  them  especially  by  the  bank. 


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Among  the  towns  of  Idaho  which  are  fast  coming  to  the  front  and 
which  are  making  that  State  one  of  the  most  desirable  in  the  West 
is  Nampa.  It  is  here  that  business  is  carried  on  in  an  energetic  and 
open-handed  way  and  the  merchants  of  that  city  are  strictly  up-to-date 
and  progressive.  That  merchants  do  make  a  town  is  generally  con- 
ceded and  after  one  discovers  the  hustling,  bustling  stores,  it  is  natural 
to  inquire  as  to  the  status  of  the  home  bank.  The  Bank  of  Nampa  is 
the  oldest  bank  in  the  city  and  one  of  the  best  known  in  the  State. 
The  report  of  this  bank  shows  conclusively  that  it  can  be  ranked  with 
any  of  the  banks  throughout  the  country  in  comparison  with  population. 

It  was  founded  in  1899  and  the  capitalization  is  $50,000.  The 
directors  of  the  company  are  all  men  of  sound  business  ability  and 
alive  at  all  times  to  the  opportunities  afforded  to  those  who  come  to 
Idaho.  They  wanted  a  good  sound  banking  institution  and  when  the 
Bank  of  Nampa  was  organized  these  men  gave  it  their  full  support, 
both  moral  and  financial.  The  officers  are  all  men  drilled  in  the  hard, 
school  of  experience  and  men  who  have  studied  the  banking  business 
from  ground  up.  It  is  that  fact,  coupled  with  the  sure-to-win  methods 
of  fair  dealing  and  prudent,  progressive  policy  that  have  made  this  bank 
one  of  the  strongest  and  most  substantial  in  the  entire  Gem  State.  The 
officers  have  at  all  times  been  willing  to  advance  money  on  the  Jegiti- 
mate  enterprises  which  the  State  affords,  and  their  experience  in  the 
business  has  qualified  them  to  distinguish  between  the  legitimate  and 
the  doubtful  projects,  an  absolutely  safe  policy  being  at  all  times  the 
one  followed. 

The  officers  of  the  bank  are:  John  W.  Givens,  president;  J.  A. 
Givens,  vice-president;  T.  E.  Munhall,  cashier;  C.  E.  Lore,  assistant 
cashier.  All  of  these  men  have  been  from  ten  to  twenty  years  learning 
the  many  intricacies  of  the  business  and  the  success  of  the  institution  can 
be  traced  to  the  strict  business  principles,  and  honest  and  fair  methods 
employed  and  the  progressiveness  of  the  men  at  the  helm.  Far-sighted 
to  a  degree,  they  have  built  the  business  up  from  a  small  country  bank 
to  one  of  prominence  and  importance.  The  directors,  namely,  John 
W.  Givens,  J.  S.  Hickey,  C.  R.  Hickey,  J.  A.  Givens,  and  Eugene 
Emerson,  are  all  men  prominent  in  business  circles  in  Nampa  and  of 
the  State,  and  they  have  helped  to  make  the  bank  what  it  is  to-day. 
They  all  have  faith  in  the  future  of  Idaho,  and  naturally  of  Nampa, 
and  that  this  town  will  some  day  be  one  of  the  biggest  in  the  State  is 
their  prediction.  Banking  on  this  and  being  assured  that  this  will  be 
soon,  they  are  building  up  one  of  the  foundations  for  a  big  city,  a  bank- 
ing institution  which  is  worthy  of  the  name  and  of  the  men  who  are 
behind  it. 

3G2 


THE  BOISE  STATE  BANK 

There  is  no  business  institution  in  Idaho  that  is  better  known  or  is 
on  a  more  solid  basis  than  the  Boise  State  Bank  of  Boise.  Although 
one  of  the  newer  banking  houses,  having  been  organized  in  1906,  it 
has  taken  rank  with  many  of  the  older  ones  and  is  enjoying  great  pros- 
perity. The  capital  of  the  Boise  State  Bank  is  $50,000.  The  officers 
at  this  time  are:  president,  Edward  Payne,  a  wealthy  and  retired 
sheepman;  vice-president,  Arthur  Pence,  prominent  as  a  stockman  and 
well  known  in  Idaho  politics ;  cashier,  E.  S.  Clapp,  formerly  a  Michigan 
banker  and  for  a  number  of  years  cashier  of  the  First  Bank  of  Council, 
Idaho. 

Eecently  the  Boise  State  Bank  began  its  occupancy  of  fine  quarters 
in  a  building  on  one  of  the  most  prominent  corners  of  Boise. 


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F.    K.    GOODING 


FRANK  R,  GOODING 

Frank  R.  Gooding  was  born  October  16,  1859,  in  England,  his  father 
being  John  Gooding,  a  farmer,  his  mother  Elizabeth  Gooding.  While 
he  was  still  a  child  his  parents  emigrated  to  America,  settling1  in  Michi- 
gan, and  he  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  that  State.  He 
came  West  in  the  seventies  and  settled  in  Idaho,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  live  stock  business.  Idaho  was  admitted  a  State  in  1890. 

Mr.  Gooding  was  elected  to  the  fifth  legislature  and  in  1904  he  was 
elected  Governor  of  the  State  as  a  Republican.  Two  years  later  he 
was  re-elected  to  the  same  office.  He  was  married  in  Idaho  in  1880. 
The  result  of  his  union  was  three  children,  John  M.,  Maud  Elizabeth, 
and  Louise,  all  living. 

It  was  during  his  second  administration  that  the  celebrated  case  of 
Pettibone,  Moyer  and  Heywood,  came  up  for  trial.  These  men  were 
leaders  of  the  Western  Federation  of  Miners,  who  were  charged  with 
being  the  instigators  of  the  assassination  of  ex-Governor  Frank  Steu- 
nenberg  at  the  gate  of  his  own  home  in  Caldwell,  Idaho,  by  the  explosion 
of  a  bomb.  The  result  was  the  acquittal  of  the  three  men,  although 
Governor  Gooding  and  his  administration  used  every  effort  to  secure 
a  conviction. 

Governor  Gooding  retired  from  office  on  January  1st,  1909.  He 
resides  at  Gooding,  a  town  named  after  him,  in  Lincoln  County,  Idaho. 


G.  H.  OLMSTEAD 


GEORGE  H.  OLMSTEAD 

George  H.  Olmstead,  one  of  the  most  prominent  railroad  men  in 
the  United  States  and  for  over  forty  years  connected  with  various  rail- 
roads throughout  the  country  in  important  positions,  is  a  native  of 
New  York  State,  having1  been  born  in  Vestal,  Broome  County,  August 
18,  1848,  a  son  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  Olmstead,  of  that  town.  The 
elder  Olmstead  was  a  farmer.  George  H.  Olmstead  received  his  early 
education  in  the  public  schools  and  subsequently  attended  the  Susque- 
hanna  Seminary  at  Binghamton,  New  York,  from  which  he  graduated. 

After  leaving  school  he  went  West,  and  his  first  occupation  was  as 
an  engineer  on  the  Napa  Railroad  in  California,  where  he  stayed  from 
1868  to  1870.  He  then  went  with  the  California  Pacific  until  1873,  and 
with  the  Central  Pacific  Railroad  during  the  years  1873  and  1874.  He 
then  came  East  and  entered  the  service  of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  and 
St.  Paul  Railroad,  where  he  remained  until  1882,  and  was  then  made 
general  foreman  of  the  motive  power  department  at  Sanborn,  Iowa, 
a  position  he  held  until  1883.  He  next  became  a  conductor  on  the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  and  St.  Paul  Railroad,  where  he  remained  from 
1885  until  1887.  From  1889  until  1899  he  was  in  the  service  of  the 
C.  B.  &  N.  Railroad,  and  then  accepted  the  position  of  traveling  con- 
ductor of  the  Montana  and  Utah  divisions  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line 
on  May  1,  1899.  He  was  promoted  to  trainmaster  March  15,  1900,  and 
as  acting  superintendent  of  the  Montana  division,  October  13,  1900, 
until  July  13,  1901,  when  he  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  super- 
intendent of  the  Montana  division.  He  was  made  superintendent  of  the 
Utah  division  in  addition  to  his  other  position,  July  7,  1903,  to  March 
31,  1904,  and  was  appointed  superintendent  of  the  Idaho  division  June 
1,  1905.  On  October  28,  1908,  Mr.  Olmstead  was  granted  a  leave  of 
absence  on  account  of  ill  health,  and  on  February  1,  1909,  was  appointed 
superintendent  of  the  Montana  division,  which  position  he  now  holds. 
During  the  years  1874  and  1875  Mr.  Olmstead  traveled  extensively 
through  South  America  and  on  the  Isthmus,  and  gained  much  knowl- 
edge of  conditions  there  at  that  time. 

Mr.  Olmstead  was  married  February  17,  1879,  and  has  been  a 
resident  of  Idaho  since  1899.  He  first  arrived  at  Helena,  Montana, 
November  10,  1866.  He  is  a  director  in  the  Bannock  National  Bank 
of  Pocatello,  Idaho ;  a  member  of  all  Masonic  bodies  and  of  the  Silver 
Bow  Club  of  Butte  and  resides  at  No.  15  Harrison  Avenue,  Pocatello, 
Bannock  County,  Idaho. 


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H.  B.  EASTMAN,,  BOISE 


HOSEA  BRADFORD  EASTMAN 

Hosea  Bradford  Eastman,  who  is  one  of  Idaho's  leading  citizens, 
is  of  old  Revolutionary  stock.  His  grandfather,  Ebenezer  Eastman, 
fought  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  his  ancestors  were  all  of  great 
prominence.  Mr.  Eastman's  father  was  Caleb  Eastman,  a  farmer,  and 
his  mother  was  Tabitha  Aldredge  Eastman.  His  early  education  was 
obtained  in  the  public  scjiools  of  Whitefield,  New  Hampshire,  where 
he  was  born  November  21,  1835.  At  the  age  of  twenty  he  went  to  work 
in  a  saw  mill  and  logging  camp,  where  he  remained  for  five  years  in 
his  home  country.  In  the  fall  of  1861  he  went  to  California,  where 
he  worked  for  about  one  year  and  six  months  on  a  stock  farm.  In 
the  winter  of  1863  he  went  to  Auburn,  Oregon,  where  he  engaged  in 
mining  for  a  couple  of  years,  and  then  came  to  Idaho,  and  built  and 
ran  the  Idaho  Hotel  in  Silver  City,  until  November,  1877,  when  he 
bought  the  Overland  Hotel  at  Boise  City,  and  was  also  interested  in 
real  estate.  He  conducted  the  hotel  until  1892,  when  he  leased  it.  Mr. 
Eastman's  brother,  B.  M.  Eastman,  was  also  interested  with  him  in 
business. 

Mr.  Eastman  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Boise  City  National 
Bank  in  1886,  and  was  vice-president  of  the  bank  until  1906,  when  it 
Was  sold.  He  is  still  a  director.  He  is  also  general  manager  of  the 
Boise  City  Artesian  Hot  and  Cold  Water  Company.  He  also  formed 
the  Eastman-Teller  Hardware  Company  in  1902,  which  company  is 
now  run  by  his  son,  B.  S.  Eastman.  Mr.  Eastman  was  a  member  of 
the  City  Council  and  of  the  school  board  of  Boise  City,  and  was  one 
of  the  organizers  of  the  Commercial  Club  and  a  charter  member  of 
lodge  No.  310,  B.  P.  0.  E.  He  is  interested  with  Mr.  Regan  in  the 
Overland  Building,  the  finest  office  building  in  Boise  City. 

September,  1872,  H.  B.  Eastman  was  married  to  Mary  A. 
Blackinger  of  Idaho,  and  they  have  two  children:  Frank  M.  and  Ben 
S.  Eastman.  Mr.  Eastman  with  his  family  resides  at  1215  Warm 
Springs  Avenue,  Boise,  Idaho. 


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J.   H.    HAWLEY 


JAMES  H.  HAWLEY 

Mention  of  Idaho  would  be  incomplete  did  it  fail  to  include  the 
name  of  James  H.  Hawley,  politician,  lawyer  and  public  servant  of  the 
Gem  State  since  his  admission  to  the  bar  of  Idaho  in  1871. 

James  H.  Hawley  was  born  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  January  17th,  1847, 
his  father  being  Thomas  Hawley  and  his  mother  Annie  Carr.  The 
young  man  received  his  earlier  education  in  the  Dubuque  high  school, 
but  early  showed  a  tendency  to  seek  western  fields  for  the  outlet  of 
his  ambition  and  a  short  time  after  completing  his  schooling  he  settled 
in  Idaho.  For  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Hawley  was  a  miner,  making 
his  headquarters  at  Quartzburg,  Idaho,  completing  his  education  in 
the  rough  and  ready  school  of  western  adversity.  During  these  years, 
however,  he  was  not  idle  and  in  1871  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and 
began  the  practice  of  law.  In  1875  he  was  married  to  Mary  E.  Bullock, 
but  long  before  this  he  had  distinguished  himself  in  public  life,  having 
been  a  member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  Idaho  legislature  in  1870-1  and 
of  the  upper  house  in  1874-5.  During  the  period  from  1879  to  1883  he 
filled  the  position  of  district  attorney  of  the  2nd  judicial  district  and 
from  1884  to  1887  he  was  United  States  attorney  for  Idaho. 

Upon  his  retirement  from  that  office  Mr.  Hawley  proceeded  to  devote 
his  full  time  and  attention  to  the  practice  of  law  and  early  reaped  a 
rich  reward  in  his  chosen  field  of  endeavor.  At  all  times  regarded  as 
one  of  the  foremost  legal  lights  of  his  State,  he  has  been  prominently 
identified  with  some  of  the  most  important  legal  actions  which  have 
ever  taken  place  within  the  confines  of  Idaho.  His  success  has  been 
rapid  and  far-reaching.  Early  known  as  an  orator  of  force  and 
strength,  as  a  pleader  he  has  achieved  brilliant  success.  At  this  time  he 
is  the  head  of  what  is  perhaps  the  best-known  legal  firm  in  the  Gem 
State  and  in  the  years  which  have  followed  his  early  efforts  he  has  estab- 
lished a  record  for  success  which  is  the  pride  and  envy  of  the  entire 
State. 

Gifted  with  a  lively  imagination  and  with  a  positive,  forceful  tem- 
perament, well  read  and  well  posted  on  current  events,  Mr.  Hawley  is 
at  once  a  delightful  companion  and  a  marvel  of  intellectual  ability.  In 
the  practice  of  law  and  by  means  of  such  business  ventures  as  have 
claimed  his  attention,  he  has  accumulated  a  comfortable  fortune  of  this 
world's  goods.  He  has,  however,  stood  ready  at  all  times  to  assist  his 
less  fortunate  neighbor  in  any  way  which  lay  within  his  power. 

While  no  longer  young,  Mr.  Hawley  is  possessed  of  the  same  tireless 
energy  and  indomitable  courage  which  in  his  earlier  years  went  so  far 
towards  establishing  him  upon  the  high  road  to  the  success  which  he 
has  since  achieved.  In  recent  years,  however,  his  life  has  been  quiet 
as  compared  with  the  period  of  his  early  struggles  for  recognition.  He 
is  the  owner  of  a  well-appointed  home  in  Boise,  where  surrounded  by 
his  family  Mr.  Hawley  is  to  be  seen  at  his  best  in  every  respect.  Should 
he  decide  to  re-enter  public  life,  however,  a  still  further  measure  of 
success  is  constantly  assured  him  by  his  many  friends  throughout  the 
entire  State. 

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JOHN    E.    YATES 


JOHN  ELVIN  YATES 

The  history  of  Idaho  is  an  interesting  one,  and  no  State  in  the 
Union  has  made  more  rapid  progress  than  this  important  section  of  the 
inter-mountain  region.  It  would  be  impossible  to  write  the  history  of 
Idaho  without  including  the  name  of  the  subject  of  this  brief  biography. 

John  Elvin  Yates  was  born  in  Bristol,  Maine,  February  4th,  1845. 
He  is  the  son  of  John  Yates,  who  was  a  sea  captain,  and  of  Sophia 
Blunt  Yates.  Mr.  Yates  received  a  common  school  education  at  Bristol, 
Maine,  and  later  emigrated  to  Idaho,  arriving  there  in  1892,  and  since 
then  has  been  permanently  and  actively  identified  with  many  of  the 
most  important  financial  institutions  and  other  corporations  in  Idaho. 
Mr.  Yates  was  at  one  time  president  of  and  one  of  the  principal  owners 
of  the  Yates  and  Corbus  Live  Stock  Company;  was  an  original  stock- 
holder and  director  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce,  and  for  several  years  its 
president.  He  was  also  a  former  director  in  the  Idaho  Trust  and 
Savings  Bank,  and  a  director  in  the  Farmers'  Bank  of  Star,  Idaho. 
All  of  these  positions  Mr.  Yates  resigned  upon  his  determination 
to  retire  from  an  active  business  career,  which  he  did  during  the  past 
year,  after  sixteen  years  of  an  honorable  business  career  during  which 
time  he  did  much  for  the  general  welfare  of  Idaho,  and  was,  and  is, 
considered  one  of  the  leading  and  most  public-spirited  citizens  of  Boise 
City. 

Mr.  Yates'  first  wife  was  Eoxanna  Cox,  of  Bristol,  Maine,  and  to 
this  union  no  children  were  born.  His  second  wife  was  Georgia  Town- 
send,  to  whom  he  was  married  at  Sycamore,  Illinois,  and  they  are 
the  parents  of  eight  children,  namely:  Dorothy,  Margaret,  Marjorie, 
John  T.,  Oscar  T.,  Frederick  T.,  William  T.,  and  Stephen  T.  Yates. 
Mr.  Yates  was  a  member  of  the  sixth  session  of  the  Idaho  legislature, 
and  a  member  of  the  Boise  City  council  for  two  years.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks. 

Though  Mr.  Yates  takes  much  pride  in  his  achievements  during  his 
life  in  his  adopted  State,  he  has,  however,  a  warm  spot  in  his  heart  for 
the  State  of  Maine,  where  he  first  saw  the  light  of  day  within  sight  of 
the  sea. .  Being  descended  from  a  race  of  sailors  he  went  to  sea  himself 
as  a  boy  for  seven  dollars  per  month,  and  with  the  assistance  of  such 
friends  as  he  made  himself  he  became  the  commander  and  part  owner 
of  as  fine  a  ship  as  ever  sailed  the  seas  in  the  Oriental  trade  in  the  days 
of  sailing  ships;  and  can  refer  to  this  day  to  the  builders  of  the  ships 
and  to  those  whose  business  and  money  he  handled  in  all  parts  of  the 
world. 


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EDWARD  PAYNE,  BOISE 

Edward  Payne,  who  is  one  of  the  best-known  business  men  of  Idaho, 
has  been  a  citizen  of  Boise  since  1882.  The  greater  part  of  his  wealth 
was  accumulated  during  a  long  period  while  engaged  in  sheepraising. 
He  retired  from  this  business  two  years  ago  and  is  now  president  of  the 
Boise  State  Bank  of  Boise,  president  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce  of 
Arco,  Idaho,  and  is  a  director  of  the  First  Bank  of  Council,  Idaho. 


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EVADA  was  admitted  to  the  Union, 
October  31,   1864,  being  the  thirty- 
sixth   in    the    sisterhood    of    States. 
In  area  she  comprises  an   imperial 
domain,    being   almost    as   large    as 
England,     Ireland,     Scotland     and 
Wales     combined.         Her     greatest 
length  from  north  to  south  is  483 
miles;    the    greatest    width    on    the 
thirty-ninth    parallel,    approximately    320    miles, 
and    the    area    112,190    square    miles,    of    which 
1000  square  miles  are  covered  by  the  waters  of 
lakes. 

Nevada  was  the  last  of  the  States  of  the  Union 
to  be  permanently  settled,  or  to  have  established 
within  her  borders  trading  or  military  posts,  which 
survived  until  submerged  by  the  rising  tide  of  set- 
tlement. The  territory  now  embraced  in  the  State 
was  probably  reached  by  some  of  the  early  Spanish 
exploring  parties,  but  the  earliest  authenticated 
visit  by  white  men  was  that  of  a  party  of  Spanish 
friars  under  Father  Francisco  Garces  who  at  the 
end  of  the  trip  in  January,  1776,  established  a  mis- 
sion post  and  residence  at  what  is  now  Fort  Yuma, 
Arizona.  There  is  no  record  of  other  white  men 
having  visited  Nevada  until  1825,  when  several 
hunting  and  trapping  parties  penetrated  the  State. 
Historians  do  not  agree  as  to  which  of  these  parties 
came  first.  Bancroft  says  Peter  Skeen  Ogden  was 
the  first  to  reach  the  valley  of  the  Humboldt  in 
midsummer,  coming  up  the  Owyhee  from  Walla 
Walla.  Henry  and  Ashley  with  a  party  of  free 
trappers  came  to  the  Humboldt  later  the  same  sum- 
mer, from  Bear  River.  Myron  Angel,  in  his  history 
of  Nevada,  published  by  Thompson  &  West,  says 
Jedediah  S.  Smith,  a  partner  of  Ashley's,  was  the 
first  to  reach  the  Humboldt,  which  he  called  Mary's 
River,  after  his  Indian  wife.  Smith  had  come  from 
his  rendezvous  on  the  Yellowstone  River  in  1825, 
and  went  down  the  Humboldt,  thence  to  the  Walker 


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River  country,  and  to  the  Tulare  valley,  California,  through  what  was  later 
known  as  Walker's  pass.  He  recrossed  the  State  on  his  return  later,  the  same 
year.  For  many  years  the  Humboldt  was  known  as  either  Mary's  River  or 
Ogden  River;  in  fact,  it  was  always  so  called  until  given  its  present  name  by 
Fremont.  As  it  is  generally  agreed  that  these  several  parties  visited  Nevada 
in  1825,  the  question  of  precedence  by  a  few  weeks  or  months  is  of  little  impor- 
tance. After  this,  the  State  was  frequently  visited  by  trappers,  and  in  the 
course  of  the  next  sixteen  years  its  principal  streams  and  the  routes  across  it 
became  fairly  well  known  to  those  hardy  and  adventurous  men  of  the  moun- 
tains. Joseph  Walker,  detached  from  Bonneville's  expedition,  crossed  the  State 
in  1833,  and  in  December,  1843,  and  January,  1844,  Fremont  passed  through 
the  western  portion  of  the  State,  skirting  and  naming  Pyramid  Lake,  and 
bestowing  on  a  river  the  name  of  his  guide,  the  famous  Kit  Carson.  This 
river  afterward  gave  its  name  to  the  valley  and  later  to  the  town  now  the 
capital  of  Nevada.  The  first  emigrants  to  cross  the  State  were  those  composing 
Captain  J.  B.  Bartleson's  party  of  thirty-five  persons,  bound  for  California  in 
1841.  They  came  by  the  way  of  the  South  Pass  and  the  Great  Salt  Lake,  and 
followed  the  then  well-known  trail  down  the  Humboldt.  They  had  no  wagons, 
all  their  goods  being  transported  on  pack  animals.  The  Truckee  River  was  so 
named  in  1844  by  a  party  starting  from  Council  Bluffs  in  compliment  to  their 
Indian  guide,  who  bore  that  name.  In  the  summer  of  1846  it  was  estimated 
that  three  thousand  persons  passed  over  the  overland  trail  to  Oregon  and  Cali- 
fornia. The  route  then  followed  up  the  Platte  and  Sweetwater,  through  South 
Pass  and  thence  by  Bear  River  to  Fort  Hall,  where  the  Oregon  and  California 
trails  parted,  the  latter  dropping  southwest  to  the  Humboldt  and  down  that 
stream.  It  was  in  the  fall  and  winter  of  this  year  that  so  many  members  of  the 
ill-fated  Donner  party  perished  of  cold  and  hunger  amid  the  deep  snows  of  the 
Sierra  Nevada  mountains. 

Up  to  this  time  Nevada  had  been  acknowledged  Mexican  territory,  but 
now  came  the  war  between  the  United  States  and  Mexico,  resulting  in  the 
cession  by  Mexico  to  the  United  States,  by  the  treaty  of  Guadalupe  Hidalgo, 
February  2,  1848,  of  all  the  country  between  the  Gila  River  and  the  forty- 
second  parallel,  and  extending  from  the  Rocky  Mountains  to  the  Pacific  Ocean. 
By  agreement,  the  cession  dated  back  to  July  7,  1846,  the  date  on  which  Com- 
modore Sloat  had  raised  the  American  flag  at  Monterey.  In  1847,  Brigham 
Young  and  the  Mormon  pioneers  settled  in  Salt  Lake  valley.  In  the  following 
year  gold  was  discovered  at  Sutter's-mill,  in  California,  and  in  1849  the  great 
California  gold  rush  came  and  thousands  of  men  from  the  Eastern  States 
poured  through  Nevada  on  the  way  to  the  land  of  gold.  In  March,  1849,  the 
Mormons,  who  had  already  become  numerous  in  the  Salt  Lake  and  adjacent 
valleys,  organized  what  they  called  the  "State  of  Deseret,"  and  claimed  all 
the  country  now  included  in  Nevada,  Utah  and  Arizona,  southern  California 
to  the  ocean,  and  parts  of  what  is  now  Idaho,  Wyoming,  Colorado,  and  New 
Mexico.  The  so-called  "State"  was  never  recognized  by  Congress,  but  that 
body,  in  1850,  admitted  California  as  a  State  with  its  present  boundaries,  and 
organized  Utah  Territory,  which  included  all  of  the  present  area  of  Nevada, 
except  the  point  of  the  State  south  of  the  thirty-seventh  parallel. 

In  the  meantime,  the  first  white  settlement  in  the  State  had  been  made  at 
Genoa,  in  what  is  now  Douglas  County,  by  Mormons  from  Salt  Lake  valley. 
This  settlement  was  on  the  road  to  California,  and  was  called  "Mormon  Sta- 
tion." It  seems  to  have  been  first  established  in  June,  1850,  and  is  mentioned 
by  many  who  passed  that  way  in  that  year,  but  when  Stephen  A.  Kinsey,  of 

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Salt  Lake,  in  the  following  year  selected  the  same  site  for  a  home  and  trading 
station  on  the  overland  road,  there  was  no  one  living  there,  and  all  buildings 
and  other  evidences  of  previous  occupancy  had  disappeared.  From  this  time 
on  the  settlement  was  permanent  and  within  the  next  two  or  three  years  a 
number  of  families  settled  in  the  vicinity.  The  first  land  claims  were  legally 
filed  in  December,  1852,  and  in  1854  a  saw-mill  and  a  grist-mill  were  built. 
The  place  was  called  Mormon  Station  until  surveyed  in  1855,  when  the  name 
w7as  changed  to  Genoa.  In  1852  a  mail  route  was  established  from  Salt  Lake 
to  San  Bernardino,  and  a  station  on  the  line  was  erected  at  Las  Vegas  Springs, 
but  it  was  abandoned  after  the  Mountain  Meadows  massacre  in  1857. 

Gold  was  discovered  near  Dayton  early  in  1850,  but  as  the  workings  were 
not  as  rich  as  those  of  California,  they  never  attracted  a  great  deal  of  attention, 
and  Nevada  did  not  become  noted  as  a  mining  section  until  the  discovery  of 
the  Comstock  lode  in  1859,  located  for  its  gold  by  placer  gold  miners  who  found 
it  in  following  up  the  pay  streak.  It  developed  into  the  greatest  silver  mine 
the  world  has  ever  known.  It  has  produced  $325,000,000,  of  which  $306,000,000 
was  produced  in  the  first  twenty  years  that  it  was  worked.  There  was  one  year 
in  which  it  yielded  $38,000,000.  As  a  whole,  the  values  consisted  of  about 
two-thirds  silver  and  one-third  gold. 

With  the  mining  discoveries  of  1859,  there  came  trooping  over  the  Sierra 
Nevada  mountains  a  motley  population  from  California  and  the  western  border 
of  the  State  from  Honey  Lake,  on  the  north,  to  Walker  River,  on  the  south, 
which,  up  to  that  time,  had  been  occupied  by  a  few  scattered  ranchers  and  placer 
miners,  swarmed  with  miners,  prospectors,  adventurers  and  gamblers.  This 
influx  of  people  induced  Congress  to  create  the  new  Territory  of  Nevada  from 
the  western  part  of  Utah  Territory,  which  was  done  March  2,  1861.  At  first 
the  eastern  boundary  was  fixed  at  the  116th  degree  of  longitude,  west  from 
Greenwich,  which  left  all  the  present  counties  of  Clark,  Lincoln,  and  White 
Pine,  most  of  Elko,  and  parts  of  Eureka  and  Nye  in  Utah.  In  1862,  the  line 
was  moved  east  to  the  115th,  and  March  21,  1864,  again  east  to  the  114th  degree, 
and  at  the  same  time  the  triangle  between  the  37th  parallel  and  the  Colorado 
River  wras  added  from  Arizona,  and  the  act  passed  to  admit  the  State  to  the 
Union  with  its  present  boundaries. 

•  The  general  geological  character  of  Nevada  is  volcanic,  and  it  presents  a 
more  pronounced  desert  aspect  than  any  other  division  of  the  Union  except 
Arizona.  With  the  exception  of  a  small  area  in  the  north,  which  is  drained  by 
the  Owyhee,  Bruneau,  Salmon  and  other  streams  into  the  Snake  River,  and  the 
southeastern  corner,  which  drains  into  the  Colorado,  the  entire  State  lies  in  the 
great  basin,  and  its  few  and  comparatively  feeble  streams  discharge  into  lakes 
or  are  swallowed  up  in  sinks  amid  the  abounding  sands  of  the  valleys  and 
plains.  This  basin  section  of  the  State  is  the  bed  of  an  ancient  sea,  whose  shore 
lines  can  be  distinctly  traced  in  a  number  of  places.  It  is  now  mainly  a  plateau, 
with  an  average  elevation  of  perhaps  4000  feet.  On  this  rise  numerous  moun- 
tain ranges,  in  most  cases  running  north  and  south,  and  varying  in  elevation 
above  the  surrounding  country  from  1000  to  8000  feet.  These  are  separated  by 
valleys  from  one  to  twenty-five  miles  in  width.  This  general  condition  is  so 
marked  a  feature  of  the  State  that  its  surface  has  been  aptly  likened  to  a  cor- 
rugated iron  roof.  These  ranges  are  usually  broken  down  or  eroded  at  intervals, 
but  in  many  cases  are  continuous  for  hundreds  of  miles.  In  many  cases  ranges 
have  been  worn  away  until  only  isolated  peaks  of  the  hardest  material  remain. 
The  valleys  are  usually  filled  to  a  great  depth  with  loose,  sandy  soil  formed  by 
the  volcanic  ash  and  ancient  sea  deposits,  together  with  the  more  recent  wash 

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from  the  mountains  and  the  dust  deposit  of  centuries  of  winds.  The  lowest  por- 
tion of  the  State  is  the  extreme  southern  point,  on  the  Colorado  River,  where 
the  elevation  above  sea  level  is  but  slightly  over  500  feet.  The  highest  point  is 
13,058  feet,  reached  in  Wheeler  Peak,  in  the  Snake  Range,  about  half-way  along 
the  eastern  border. 

Nevada,  having  but  little  rain  and  not  much  snow,  except  in  the  mountains, 
has  but  few  rivers,  and  none  of  them  are  large.  The  Humboldt  is  the  longest. 
It  rises  in  the  northeastern  part  of  the  State,  and  flows  southwest  for  about 
375  miles  to  Humboldt  Lake.  It  has  cut  through  all  the  mountain  ranges ,  in 
its  length,  thus  affording  the  best  path  across  the  State  east  and  west.  This 
was  first  taken  advantage  of  by  the  Indians  and  trappers,  whose  trails  followed 
it.  Later  the  emigrant  wagon  road  took  the  same  route,  then  came  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad  along  the  same  path,  and  later  the  Western  Pacific,  after 
trying  in  vain  to  get  a  satisfactory  line  across  the  mountains  elesewhere,  was 
forced  to  get  into  the  Humboldt  valley  and  parallel  the  Southern  Pacific  half- 
way across  the  State.  The  Truckee  is  the  outlet  of  Lake  Tahoe,  and  is  a  clear, 
bold  stream,  which,  after  a  short  course  in  the  plain,  discharges  into  Pyramid 
Lake.  Its  basin  includes  a  considerable  portion  of  the  eastern  slope  of  the 
Sierra  Nevada,  where  the  snowfall  is  exceedingly  heavy,  and  its  annual  flow 
exceeds  that  of  the  Humboldt.  The  Carson  and  Walker  flow  into  lakes  of  the 
same  name  in  the  western  part  of  the  State.  In  the  north  are  several  streams 
tributary  to  the  Snake,  and  in  the  southeast  two  unimportant  ones,  discharging 
into  the  Colorado.  Other  than  these,  the  only  streams  in  the  State  are  the  creeks 
issuing  from  the  mountains  and  sinking  in  the  sands  or  sinks  in  the  valleys. 
Many  of  these  in  spring  and  early  summer  are  veritable  mountain  torrents  that 
flood  large  areas  of  the  adjacent  valleys,  forming  shallow  lakes  many  miles  in 
extent.  Then  in  late  summer  and  autumn  the  stream-bed  may  be  only  a  dry 
canyon,  while  the  lake  it  fed  soon  disappears.  Besides  those  of  a  temporary 
character,  Nevada  has  a  number  of  permanent  and  beautiful  lakes.  Pyramid 
Lake  is  the  largest,  with  a  length  of  thirty-five  miles  and  a  width  of  ten  miles. 
Lake  Tahoe  is  on  the  California  line,  at  an  elevation  of  6225  feet,  in  a  region  of 
mountain  and  forest.  Because  of  its  altitude,  its  great  depth,  the  clearness  of  its 
waters,  and  the  remarkable  beauty  of  its  surroundings,  it  is  one  of  the  foremost 
of  American  mountain  lakes.  It  is  becoming  a  noted  summer  resort  and  is 
visited  each  year  by  many  tourists.  Other  important  lakes  are  Walker,  Winne- 
mucca,  Humboldt,  Carson  and  Snow  Water  lakes. 

The  climate  of  Nevada  is  dry,  mild  and  beautiful.  The  percentage  of  bright, 
sunny  days  is  extremely  high,  and  severe  winds  are  unusual.  The  average 
temperature  for  January  is  about  twenty-eight  degrees  and  for  July  seventy-one 
degrees.  Great  extremes  of  either  cold  or  heat  are  not  common,  and,  when 
they  do  occur,  are  minimized  by  the  dryness  and  tonic  qualities  of  the  atmosphere. 
The  State  is  the  most  arid  in  the  Union,  the  average  precipitation  being  less 
than  twelve  inches,  and  this  is  very  unevenly  distributed  as  to  time  and  locality. 
Nearly  all  the  precipitation  occurs  between  December  and  May.  It  is  much 
greater  in  the  mountains,  especially  the  higher  ranges,  than  in  the  valleys,  and 
is  about  twice  as  great  in  the  northern  as  in  the  southern  half  of  the  State.  In 
some  of  the  valleys  rain  seldom  falls,  and  there  are  some  sections  of  the  southern 
part  of  the  State  that  are  practically  rainless.  The  way  the  rains  come  in  the 
open  country  of  the  southern  triangle  of  the  State  was  well  expressed  by  a 
stage-driver.  When  asked  by  a  passenger  in  what  way,  if  it  never  rained  there, 
the  dry  gulch  the  stage  was  wearily  toiling  up  had  been  formed,  he  replied: 
"It  only  rains  about  once  in  fifteen  years,  and  then  wre  have  a  cloudburst  that 
floods  the  country." 

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Nevada  is  pre-eminently  a  mining  State.  Her  fame  and  her  early  prosperity 
as  well  as  her  present  prominence,  have  been  due  almost  wholly  to  her  mineral 
treasures,  although  in  the  years  following  the  first  mining  rush,  stock-raising 
and  farming  were  developed  to  some  extent  and  in  recent  years  the  latter  has 
received  additional  impulse  from  the  inauguration  of  important  irrigation  proj- 
ects by  the  Goverment  and  by  private  means.  So  dependent  has  the  Nevada  of 
the  past  been  on  her  mines,  that  the  population  of  the  State  has  gone  up  or 
down  with  the  prosperity  or  decline  of  the  mining  industry.  Twenty  years  fol- 
lowing the  discovery  of  the  Comstock  lode  was  a  period  of  great  prosperity  for 
the  mines  and  the  census  of  1860  showed  a  population  of  6,857,  that  of  1870 
showed  a  population  of  42,491,  and  of  1880,  62,266.  There  came  a  period  of 
twenty  years  in  which  the  mines  of  the  State  languished,  and  in  1890  the  popu- 
lation had  fallen  to  45,761,  wrhile  the  census  of  1900  showed  a  further  decline  to 
42,335,  which  was  less  than  the  population  had  been  thirty  years  before.  Then, 
in  1901,  came  the  new  gold  discoveries  at  Tonopah,  and  in  1902  the  still  more 
sensational  finds  at  Goldfield,  the  wonderful  richness  and  apparently  great 
extent  of  which  again  centered  the  attention  of  the  country  on  Nevada.  Miners 
again  flocked  to  the  State,  capitalists  from  the  East  as  well  as  from  the  West 
became  interested,  scores  of  other  new  mineral  discoveries  were  made,  and  new 
camps  located,  while  old  and  decadent  or  abandoned  camps  were  rejuvenated. 
And  to  augment  all  this,  came  the  new  and  enormous  copper  development  of  the 
Ely  District  and  copper  discoveries  elsewhere  that  hold  forth  great  promise  of 
future  achievement.  In  response,  the  population  again  rose,  and  the  number  of 
persons  residing  in  the  State  was  estimated  by  the  Governor  in  November, 
1908,  to  be  132,000. 

The  Nevada  of  to-day  is  a  different,  a  more  stable  and  permanent  community 
than  the  Nevada  of  the  early  days.  There  are  several  causes  contributing  to 
this  result,  among  them  being  the  greater  number  and  extent  of  the  known 
mineralized  areas,  the  improved  methods  of  ore  reduction  that  permit  the  han- 
dling of  vast  tonnages  of  low-grade  ore,  the  copper  development  at  Ely,  Yering- 
ton  and  other  places,  and  the  impetus  given  to  agriculture  and  horticulture  by 
irrigation.  In  the  past  five  years  the  gold  production  of  Nevada  has  increased 
enormously.  In  1906,  it  was  $9,278,000;  in  1907,  $15,411,000;  in  1908  over 
twenty  millions  and  it  is  believed  the  production  for  1909  will  reach  thirty 
millions.  Goldfield,  Tonopah  and  the  Bullfrog  districts  are  the  largest  pro- 
ducers. The  output  of  the  mines  at  Goldfield  alone  is  now  running  at  the 
rate  of  about  $15,000,000  annually,  while  that  at  Tonopah  is  very  large,  and  in 
Bullfrog  District  many  recent  strikes  seemingly  assure  an  enormous  production 
as  soon  as  a  sufficient  stage  of  development  has  been  reached.  The  same  is 
true  in  less  degree  of  many  other  gold  districts  of  the  State  and  new  finds  are 
constantly  being  made  at  intervals.  The  latest  new  find  and  one  that  presents 
every  surface  indication  of  being  the  equal  of  any  other  in  the  State  is  that  at 
Salisbury  wash,  or  Ellendale,  about  forty  miles  east  of  Tonopah,  the  discovery 
of  which  became  known  about  the  1st  of  June.  Nevada  will  easily  lead  all  the 
States  of  the  Union  in  gold  production  in  1909. 

The  silver  production  of  Nevada  is  also  rapidly  increasing.  In  1906  the 
value  of  the  silver  produced  was  $3,450,000 ;  in  1907,  $5,465,000,  and  since  then 
the  production  has  been  largely  increased.  The  lead  production  is  relatively 
small,  the  amount  reported  for  1908  being  3700  tons. 

Copper  is  a  new  and  important  mineral  product  of  Nevada  and  one  that 
perhaps  contains  more  assurance  of  permanence  than  either  gold  or  silver.  The 
copper  product  of  the  State  in  1907  was  1,998,000  pounds,  and  in  1908  it  rose 

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to  12,241,000  pounds.  At  this  time  (July  1st,  1909)  the  Steptoe  Valley  Smelt- 
ing Company,  at  McGill,  in  the  Ely  District,  White  Pine  County,  a  new  con- 
cern, is  turning  out  copper  from  the  ores  of  that  district  at  the  rate  of  75,000,000 
pounds  per  year,  which  will  be  largely  increased  in  another  year,  when  the  new 
works  are  fully  completed  and  in  full  swing.  The  present  demonstrated 
resources  in  the  Ely  District  are  sufficient  to  maintain  this  annual  output  for 
thirty  years,  and  large  areas  of  known  copper  territory  yet  remain  to  be 
explored.  There  is  every  indication  that  the  copper  product  of  Ely  will  exceed 
in  value  the  more  than  $300,000,000  record  of  the  Comstock  lode.  This  cop- 
per is  now  being  produced  at  a  cost  of  eight  cents  per  pound,  which,  it  is 
believed,  will  be  reduced  to  seven  cents  as  soon  as  the  mines  and  reduction  works 
are  gotten  down  to  smooth  running  order.  Much  of  this  copper  ore  is  mined 
with  steam  shovels  in  open  cuts.  There  are  other  important  copper  deposits  in 
the  State,  notably  at  Yerington,  where  a  large  amount  of  development  work  has 
been  done,  and  where  large  reduction  works  will  be  built  in  the  near  future. 

The  three  counties  showing  the  largest  mineral  output  are  Esmeralda,  Nye 
and  White  Pine,  the  first  including  Goldfield,  the  second  Tonopah  and  Rhyo- 
lite,  and  the  third  the  Ely  District.  All  these  towns  are  rapidly  becoming 
important  cities.  The  monthly  pay-roll  of  the  mines  at  Goldfield  is  now  about 
$200,000,  and  of  the  mines  and  smelters  at  Ely  about  $275,000.  Every  county  in 
Nevada  is  mineralized  and  there  are  scores  of  other  prosperous  and  promising 
mining  districts  which  can  not  be  even  enumerated  here.  The  only  important 
city  of  the  State  which  is  not  almost  wholly  dependent  on  the  mining  industry 
is  Reno,  near  which  are  located  the  immense  shops  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Rail- 
road. Reno  is  also  an  important  jobbing  point,  and  the  distributing  center 
for  a  large  territory. 

Besides  the  metals,  Nevada  has  extensive  deposits  of  salt,  borax,  sulphur, 
soda  and  potash,  while  there  are  mountains  of  granite,  marble,  limestone,  sand- 
stone and  slate.  Some  lignite  coal  has  been  mined  in  the  hills  along  the  upper 
Humboldt. 

With  the  development  of  the  mines  comes  a  larger  and  better  home  market 
for  the  products  of  the  farmer  and  stockman,  so  that  the  prosperity  of  the  one 
tends  to  develop  the  other.  The  soil  of  nearly  all  the  valleys  of  Nevada  is  very 
fertile,  but  the  extreme  aridity  of  the  State  restricts  the  dry-farming  area  while 
the  scarcity  of  surface  water  renders  the  area  that  can  be  successfully  irri- 
gated very  small  as  compared  with  the  vast  extent  of  the  State.  In  the  valleys 
of  the  Humboldt  and  its  tributaries,  along  the  Carson  and  Truckee,  and  at  other 
isolated  parts  in  the  State,  farming  and  fruit-raising,  under  irrigation,  have 
been  carried  on  with  success  for  many  years.  One  of  the  first  irrigation 
projects  undertaken  by  the  Government  under  the  Reclamation  Act,  was  the 
Truckee-Carson,  designed  to  irrigate  about  350,000  acres  along  the  lower  Carson. 
The  work  is  now  approaching  completion,  and  a  portion  of  the  land  is  already 
settled  and  under  cultivation.  Of  the  350,000  acres,  about  245,000  acres  is 
desert  land  belonging  to  the  Government  and  105,000  acres  was  in  private 
ownership  before  the  project  was  undertaken.  The  plan  followed  was  to  divert 
the  flood  waters  of  the  Truckee  and  store  them  in  reservoirs  on  the  Carson.  The 
total  storage  capacity  of  these  reservoirs  is  1,375,000  acre  feet,  from  which  can 
be  drawn  annually,  if  needed,  830,000  acre  feet.  The  farm  unit  is  40  or  80 
acres.  The  Nevada  farmer  on  irrigated  lands  can  raise  about  the  same  variety 
and  quantity  of  general  farm  products,  vegetables  and  fruits  that  are  produced 
under  similar  conditions  in  Utah  and  Idaho.  As  elsewhere  in  the  West,  alfalfa 
is  the  great  forage  crop,  and  nowhere  is  it  more  attractive  in  its  vivid  green  and 

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its  luxuriant  growth  than  amid  the  somber  sage  and  sand  and  the  dull-gray 
volcanic  ash  of  these  plains.  The  raising  of  alfalfa  seed  is  very  successful,  and 
will  in  the  near  future  develop  into  an  important  industry.  Nevada  wheat  is 
of  a  superior  quality,  and  the  yield  is  heavy,  the  average  production  per  acre 
for  the  State  being  over  thirty  bushels,  more  than  double  the  average  yield  of 
the  Mississippi  Valley  States.  Yields  of  forty  to  sixty  bushels  are  not  uncom- 
mon. Potatoes  and  all  vegetables  yield  abundantly,  and  are  of  excellent  quality. 
In  the  valleys  having  the  lowest  altitude  in  the  west  central  portion  of  the  State, 
hops  yield  heavily,  and  corn,  peas,  beans  and  sweet  potatoes  do  well.  The 
southern  end  of  Nevada  is  in  the  same  latitude  as  southern  Virginia  and  the 
Carolinas,  and  with  its  low  elevation  is  almost  semi-tropical  in  climate  and 
productions.  In  the  valley  of  the  Muddy  and  Rio  Virgin,  cotton,  tobacco,  pea- 
nuts, figs,  etc.,  come  to  maturity.  Since  the  construction  of  the  Salt  Lake  and 
Los  Angeles  Railroad,  four  years  ago,  there  has  developed  in  the  Moapa  sec- 
tion of  the  State  a  large  industry  in  the  growing  of  early  vegetables,  melons, 
etc.,  for  the  Utah  and  other  Northern  and  Eastern  markets.  This  section  of  the 
State  promises  to  become  famous  as  a  melon-growing  region. 

Stock-raising  is  an  important  industry,  the  number  of  both  cattle  and  sheep 
in  the  State  being  very  large.  The  business  has  been  very  prosperous,  especially 
in  the  central  and  northern  parts  of  the  State,  where  are  to  be  found  the 
immense  ranges  of  several  cattle  and  sheep  companies  that  are  among  the 
largest  in  the  country. 

Nevada  is  crossed  by  two  transcontinental  lines  of  railroad,  the  Southern 
Pacific  and  the  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  &  Salt  Lake,  and  a  third,  the  "Western 
Pacific,  will  be  completed  and  in  operation  before  the  end  of  1909.  These 
roads  and  their  numerous  branches  reach  most  of  the  important  points  in  the 
State.  There  is  also  the  Tonopah  &  Tidewater,  extending  from  the  main  line 
of  the  Santa  Fe  in  California  to  Goldfield  and  Tonopah,  and  two  small  inde- 
pendent lines  in  the  western  part  of  the  State.  A  line  across  the  south-central 
portion  of  the  State,  from  Goldfield  to  Ely,  is  projected,  and  will  probably  be 
built  within  the  next  year  or  two. 


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ELWIN  S.  CHAFEY 


VIEW   OF   CHAFEY   MINES,   CHAFEY,    NEVADA 


Elwin  S.  Chafey,  founder  of  the  now  famous  Chafey  Camp, 
Nevada,  has  been  a  prominent  mine  developer,  and  a  successful  one, 
for  several  years.  But  he  has  recently  developed  in  the  rejuvenated 
Chafey  Camp  the  greatest  strike  of  his  career,  and  no  wonder  he  is 
enthusiastic,  because  he  has  a  mine  and  a  valuable  and  productive  prop- 
erty. There  is  an  honorable  list  of  the  Chafey  Nevada  mining  proper- 
ties, gained  many  years  before  the  desert  operators  were  ever  heard 
of  and  there  is  considerably  less  difficulty  in  wringing  profits  from 
Chafey  properties  to-day  than  there  was  then.  In  those  days  it  cost  a 
small  fortune  to  have  ores  hauled  to  Winnemucca,  where  there  was  a 
mill,  and  it  cost  25  cents  per  ton  to  have  it  treated,  yet  much  of  the  rock 
/letted  $800  per  ton.  Then  supplies  were  high  and  powder  expensive 
and  poor,  and  the  Indians  very  hostile,  many  of  the  miners  being 
killed.  To-day  all  that  is  changed  and  conditions  perfect  for  the  devel- 
opment and  production  and  shipping  of  ore  at  a  great  profit.  Experts 
say  that  there  is  not  a  greater  desert  camp  in  Nevada  than  Chafey, 

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and  a  wonderful  profit  is  in  store  for  that  now  famous  camp.  The  early 
operators  at  Chafey  did  not  go  below  80  feet,  and  they  walked  over 
valuable  ore  year  after  year.  E.  S.  Chafey  went  farther  and  became 
the  rejuvenator  of  the  camp.  He  soon  developed  the  famous  Black 
Hole  Mine.  The  ledge  followed  was  very  distinct  on  the  surface;  and 
there  are  more  of  such  ledges,  any  one  of  which  may  lead  into  as  big 
a  proposition  as  the  Black  Hole  is  to-day. 

Milling  ores  occur  at  Chafey  in  big  bodies,  and  the  new  custom  mill 
recently  built  will  lessen  the  cost  of  production  greatly.  This  district 
is  fifteen  miles  long  by  four  to  five  in  width,  and  there  is  not  a  camp 
in  the  country  with  better  surface  showings,  and  no  camp  in  Nevada 
can  show  such  a  record  as  this  district,  by  virtue  of  the  Black  Hole 
operations  and  shipments,  and  Chafey  gives  every  promise  of  further 
successes  and  big  increase  in  population.  The  town  site  is  perfect, 
climate  great,  and  many  lots  are  now  being  sold  for  investment  pur- 
poses. 

Mr.  Chafey  has  developed  the  Nevada,  the  Black  Hole  and  Golden 
Bell  mines,  and  two  other  groups  owned  by  the  Chafey  Mines  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  is  president  and  H.  C.  Ostler  is  secretary  and  treas- 
urer. Mr.  Chafey  owns  95  per  cent,  of  the  stock,  and  in  less  than  one 
year  the  mines  produced  $250,000,  and  it  is  estimated  that  there  is  a 
million  dollars  worth  of  ore  in  sight.  Several  shafts  have  been  sunk, 
and  the  profitable  ore  will  run  a  great  deal  more.  The  vein  on  the  sur- 
face is  opened  for  2300  feet,  every  place  showing  ore  of  milling  value. 
The  ore  is  silicious,  the  values  being  chiefly  in  gold,  with  just  a  little 
silver  and  lead.  The  Chafey  Mines  Company  was  incorporated  in 
1909  for  $1,000,000,  with  200,000  shares  of  treasury  stock,  making  an 
immediate  offering  of  only  50,000  shares,  which  offering  was  guar- 
anteed. 

Elwin  S.  Chafey  was  born  October  9,  1877,  at  Winfield,  Kansas,  a 
son  of  M.  N.  and  Elizabeth  W.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Ethel  M. 
Cutler,  November  25,  1907.  He  arrived  at  Chafey,  Nevada,  in  May, 
1908,  and  is  the  founder  of  the  town.  He  discovered  the  Transvaal 
Camp,  Nye  County,  Nevada,  and  developed  the  Diamond  Queen  Mine. 
He  also  started  the  Skiddoo  Camp  in  California,  and  many  other  mines. 
Mr.  Chafey  is  a  resident  of  Chafey,  Humboldt  County,  Nevada. 


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THE  NIXON  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  RENO 


TWO  STRONG  BANKING  HOUSES 


The  Nixon  National  Bank  of  Reno  was  organized  October  20,  1906,  with  a  capital  of 
$500,000,  and  a  paid-in  surplus  of  $50,000,  with  the  following  officers:  Geo.  S.  Nixon,  presi- 
dent; Geo.  F.  Turrittin,  vice-president;  F.  M.  Lee,  cashier;  R.  C.  Turrittin,  assistant 
cashier. 

It  opened  its  doors  for  business  November  12,  1906,  and  did  a  thriving  business,  receiving 
deposits  approximating  $1,000,000  by  the  end  of  the  first  half  year. 

At  a  stockholders'  meeting  held  May  7,  1907,  it  was  arranged  to  purchase  the  assets 
of  the  Bank  of  Nevada,  one  of  the  pioneer  banks  in  Reno,  and  the  State,  having  a  paid-in 
capital  of  $600,000.  The  consolidation  was  consummated  on  May  20  of  the  same  year,  and 
the  banking  business  has  from  that  time  been  transacted  in  the  building  formerly  owned  and 
occupied  by  the  Bank  of  Nevada.  To  facilitate  the  consolidation,  the  Nixon  National  Bank 
increased  its  capital  to  $1,000,000,  and  the  Bank  of  Nevada  Savings  &  Trust  Company  was 
organized  with  the  same  ownership,  and  with  a  capital  of  $100,000,  fully  paid.  The  business 
of  both  banks  is  carried  on  in  the  same  office  and  under  the  same  management. 

In  response  to  calls  from  the  Comptroller  of  the  Currency  and  the  State  Bank  Examiner, 
the  following  statements,  showing  condition  at  the  close  of  business  on  April  28th,  were 
furnished : 

THE  NIXON  NATIONAL  BANK 

RESOURCES  LIABILITIES 


Loans   and   discounts    $1,820,984.70 

Overdrafts  secured  and  un- 
secured    4,317.73 

U.  S.  Bonds  to  secure  circula- 
tion    1,000,000.00 

U.    S.    Bonds    to    secure    U.    S. 

deposits     50,000.00 

Premiums  on  U.  S.  Bonds   ....  25,990.13 

Bonds,  securities,  etc 17,000.00 

Banking-house,     furniture     and 

fixtures     94,039.61 

Due  from  National  Banks   (not 

reserve  agents)    9,631.93 

Due     from     State     banks     and 

bankers       138,327.96 

Due     from     approved     reserve 

agents    441,968.94 

Checks  and  other  cash  items   .  .  5,604.89 

Exchanges  for  clearing-house  .  .  3,804.97 

Notes  of  other  National  banks          18,620.00 

Fractional       paper       currency, 

nickels  and  cents   486.74 

Lawful  money  reserve  in  bank, 
viz: 

Specie     $109,751.85 

Legal-tender  notes  7,025.00        116,776.85 

Redemption  fund  with  U.  S. 
treasurer  (5  per  cent  of  cir- 
culation ) 50,000,00 

Total     $3,797,554.45 


Capital  stock  paid  in  $1,000,000.00 

Surplus  fund  200,000.00 

Undivided  profits,  less  expenses 

and  taxes  paid .  37,932.81 

National  bank  notes  out- 

. standing  986,300.00 

Due  to  other  national  banks..  155,868.91 

Due  to  State  banks  and  bankers  83,785.50 
Due  to  trust  companies  and 

savings  banks  129,942.57 

Dividends  unpaid  956.00 

Individual  deposits  subject  to 

check  926,770.03 

Demand  certificates  of  deposit  28,410.86 

Time  certificates  of  deposit  .  .  183,559.87 

Certified  checks  11,742.52 

Cashier's  checks  outstanding  .  .  1,770.06 

United  States  deposits  50,000.00 

Letters  of  credit  .  515.32 


Total     $3,797,554.45 


THE  BANK  OF  NEVADA  SAVINGS  &  TRUST  CO. 


RESOURCES 

Loans  and  discounts $315,708.12 

Overdrafts   (secured)    4,350.38 

Other  real  estate  owned   11,000.00 

Due   from  banks   and  bankers  .  .  128,685.75 
Cash  on  hand,  viz: 

Gold  coin    945.00 

Silver  coin    28.85 

Currency     18,000.00 

Total    $478,718.10 


LIABILITIES 

Capital   stock  paid  in $100,000.00 

Undivided   profits    $4,270.86 

Less    current   expenses 

and    taxes    paid     835.50         3,435.36 

Individual     deposits     subject     to 

check    485.46 

Savings    deposits     374,797.28 


Total 


$478,718.10 


To  the  heavy  capitalization  of  these  banks  and  to  the  reputations  of  the  officers  and 
directors,  as  conservative  business  men  and  strong  financial  factors,  must  be  attributed 
their  popularity  with  the  banking  public  during  the  stringent  financial  times  just  past. 
Their  large  deposits  bespeak  the  confidence  which  they  enjoy  from  the  people  of  their 
territory,  and  that  this  confidence  is  appreciated  is  evidenced  by  the  magnitude  of  their 
loan  accounts,  which  show  that  they  have  been  meeting  the  requirements  of  their  clientele. 

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HON.  GEO.  S.  NIXON 


GEO.  S.  NIXON 

United  States  Senator  Geo.  S.  Nixon  is  pre-eminently  a  self-made 
man.  The  record  of  his  experience  indicates  how  industry  applied  to 
Western  opportunities  enables  one  to  be  decidedly  successful  notwith- 
standing the  manifold  obstacles  one  must  overcome.  He  was  born  in 
Placer  County,  California,  April  2,  1860,  and  worked  on  his  father's 
farm  until  19  years  of  age.  He  secured  a  very  fair  education  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  State  and  in  1878  he  became  an  employee  of  the 
Southern  Pacific  Railroad  Company  at  New  Castle,  California.  After 
acquiring  a  knowledge  of  telegraphy  in  a  railway  station  office,  he  was 
transferred  in  1881  to  Nevada  points,  serving  as  an  operator  on  the 
Central  Pacific  Railroad  and  the  Carson  &  Colorado  Railroad.  After 
three  years  of  this  service  he  was  offered  and  he  accepted  a  clerical 
situation  with  the  First  National  Bank  of  Reno,  an  institution  that 
afterwards  became  the  Washoe  County  Bank.  Doubtless  this  new 
vocation  was  Mr.  Nixon's  proper  sphere,  as  he  rapidly  grew  into 
prominence  and  public  confidence  and  is  now  representing  Nevada 
in  the  United  States  Senate. 

Mr.  Nixon  succeeded  the  late  Senator  William  M.  Stewart,  having 
been  elected  on  January  25,  1905,  for  the  term  beginning  March  4,  1905. 
Prior  to  his  election  to  the  United  States  Senate  Senator  Nixon  was  a 
member  of  the  legislature  of  Nevada  during  the  session  of  1891. 

Senator  Nixon  is  one  of  the  most  prosperous  business  men  of 
Nevada.  For  years  he  was  the  most  active  mine  operator  and  is  now 
largely  interested  in  banking,  stockraising  and  farming.  He  is  the 
president  of  the  Nixon  National  Bank  of  Reno,  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Winnemucca  and  the  Tonopah  Banking  Corporation  of 
Tonopah. 


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FRANK   MOOKE  LEE 


FRANK  MOORE  LEE 

Frank  Moore  Lee  is  a  native  of  California  and  was  born  in  Long 
Valley,  January  10,  1867.  His  father  was  Levi  W.  Lee  and  his  mother 
Julia  De  Ette  Moore.  When  a  small  boy  his  parents  moved  to  Reno. 
Nevada,  where  he  was  educated  in  the  public  schools.  He  was  mar- 
ried to  Ada  Finlayson  at  Reno,  on  January  18,  1892,  and  they  have  one 
daughter,  Margerie  Lee. 

Mr.  Lee  engaged  in  the  livery  and  stock-shipping  business  during 
the  years  1884-1886,  when  his  father  died.  He  then  accepted  a  position 
in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Reno  and  he  later  became  a  director  and 
assistant  cashier  of  the  Washoe  County  Bank,  which  was  the  successor 
of  the  First  National.  In  1901  he  became  the  cashier  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Winnemucca  which  he  and  Senator  Geo.  S.  Nixon  had 
organized  in  1886.  In  1906  he  was  associated  with  Senator  Nixon  and 
others  in  organizing  the  Nixon  National  Bank  of  Reno,  which  is  one 
of  the  largest  capitalized  institutions  in  the  West.  He  is  now  serving 
the  Nixon  National  as  its  cashier  and  has  the  reputation  of  being  one 
of  the  best  bankers  in  the  inter-mountain  country.  Mr.  Lee  is  now  also 
vice-president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Winnemucca  and  of  the 
Tonopah  Banking  Corporation  of  Tonopah,  and  is  secretary  of  the 
Lovelock  Land  and  Development  Company.  He  has  held  no  political 
office. 

Mr.  Lee  is  a  Mason,  Knight  Templar,  Shriner  and  an  Elk,  and  is 
vice-president  of  the  Reno  Commercial  Club.  He  lives  at  Rio  Vista 
Heights,  Court  Street,  Reno,  Nevada. 


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J.    K.    DAVIS 


JAMES   E.   DAVIS 

James  R.  Davis  was  born  in  Columbus,  Indiana,  on  the  16th  day  of 
December,  1872.  His  parents  were  of  Scotch  and  English  stock,  and 
from  them  he  inherits  the  characteristics  of  the  race— grim  determina- 
tion and  perseverance.  Mr.  Davis  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Indiana  and  Kansas.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  left  home  and  went 
to  Denver  and  from  that  time  up  to  the  present  time,  he  has  been 
engaged  in  the  mining  business.  The  greater  part  of  his  time  from 
1890  to  1904  was  spent  in  prospecting  in  Arizona,  California,  Oregon 
and  Alaska,  and  while  he  was  not  successful  in  accumulating  a  fortune, 
he  did  succeed  in  getting  experience  in  the  mining  industry  which  has 
been  invaluable  to  him  ever  since. 

He  went  to  Goldfield,  Nevada,  in  1904  when  the  boom  was  on  and  has 
been  generally  successful  in  all  his  mining  ventures  at  Goldfield,  Fair- 
view  and  Eound  Mountain,  Nevada.  He  is  at  the  present  time  president 
and  manager  of  the  Round  Mountain  Mining  Company,  vice-president 
and  manager  of  the  Great  Bend  Mining  Company,  vice-president  of  the 
Nevada  Hills  Mining  Company,  vice-president  and  manager  of  the 
Loftus-Davis  Federated  Mines  Company,  and  vice-president  of  the 
Nevada  Exploitation  Company. 


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T.  G.  LOCKHAET 


THOMAS  GASKILL  LOCKIIART 

Nevada  and  the  States  surrounding  it  have  produced  many  millionaires  and 
great  mining  magnates,  some  who  were  wealthy  before  they  struck  the  new 
country,  and  others  who  caught  the  fever  and,  starting  in  with  nothing,  amassed 
fortunes.  Thomas  Gaskill  Lockhart  is  known  to  all  Nevada,  and  his  meteoric 
rise  and  his  keen  insight,  good  judgment  and  fair  dealings  will  always  be  remem- 
bered as  a  tribute  to  him.  He  was  born  in  Burlington,  Burlington  County,  New 
Jersey,  on  the  2d  of  May,  1848.  He  attended  the  public  schools  in  Burlington 
and  Birmingham.  To  secure  this  education,  he  was  by  force  of  circumstances 
compelled  to  work  all  the  spring  and  summer  on  the  farm  in  order  to  get  this 
schooling,  his  parents  not  having  too  much  of  this  world's  goods. 

When  twenty-one  years  of  age  Mr.  Lockhart  left  Philadelphia  with  a  capi- 
tal of  $95  and  arrived  in  Omaha,  Nebraska,  on  March  18,  1869.  The  only  thing 
to  do  in  that  country  at  that  time  was  to  engage  in  the  cattle  business.  He 
secured  employment  herding  cattle  near  Fremont,  Nebraska,  and  remained  one 
year  at  this  occupation.  The  mining  industry  was  what  he  was  looking  at  and 
leaving  Fremont  he  went  to  Georgetown,  Colorado.  For  thirty  years  he 
engaged  in  mining  in  this  State  and  was  considered  one  of  the  best  prospectors 
and  practical  men  in  the  State.  Prospecting  seemed  to  be  very  much  to  his 
liking,  and  in  1899  he  started  on  a  trip  of  this  kind,  going  through  Utah,  Ari- 
zona and  Nevada.  In  March,  1901,  he  landed  in  Tonopah.  The  Nevada  country 
was  still  unopened,  but  the  conditions  in  this  place  so  pleased  Lockhart  that  he 
decided  to  settle.  He  took  up  the  Tonopah  Extension  claim  and  many  others, 
including  the  Unlucky  13.  He  worked  on  these  for  two  years,  and,  hearing  of 
the  country  in  and  around  Goldfield,  he  disposed  of  his  interests  and  in  1903 
arrived  at  Goldfield.  Goldfield  at  that  time  consisted  of  four  tents  and  a  12x12 
blacksmith  shop. 

It  was  here  that  Mr.  Lockhart  "came  into  his  own."  He  sized  up  the  condi- 
tions in  this  wonderful  camp,  and  the  future  looked  so  excellent  and  auspicious 
that  he  decided  to  stake  his  chances  there.  That  he  was  successful  almost  beyond 
measure  is  obvious.  Among  some  of  the  properties  bought  by  him  in  that  year 
was  the  famous  Florence  property,  which  was  at  that  time  a  ten-foot  hole.  A 
sixty  per  cent,  interest  was  what  Mr.  Lockhart  secured,  and  the  fact  that  this 
one  property  has  produced  over  $6,000,000  since  that  time,  and  $60,000  a  month, 
is  proof  positive  of  his  excellent  judgment  and  wonderful  sagacity.  Mr.  Lock- 
hart  at  the  present  time  is  the  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Florence 
Goldfield  Mining  Company,  and  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Jumbo 
Extension  Mining  Company,  both  of  which  are  in  the  category  of  big  mines  in 
the  State. 

The  domestic  life  of  Mr.  Lockhart  is  an  extremely  happy  one.  He  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Minnie  A.  Haney  in  October,  1886.  The  union  has  been  blessed  by 
three  children,  George  Jerome,  Myra  Belle  and  Harry  Haney.  His  permanent 
address  is  Goldfield,  and  it  is  natural  that  he  desires  to  live  in  the  place  where 
he  was  so  successful.  He  is  a  prominent  Elk  and  a  member  of  the  Montezuma 
Club. 

Mr.  Lockhart  is  very  modest  and  is  reticent  about  telling  of  his  wonderful 
success  or  of  the  hardships  endured  before  he  succeeded  in  surmounting  the 
barriers  and  reaching  that  goal  for  which  we  are  all  striving. 


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,T.    M.    MACKENZIE,    GOLDFIELD 


JOHN  M.  MACKENZIE 

The  friends  of  John  Mackenzie  declare  that  if  there  is  a  man  in  the  Western  country 
that  knows  more  about  the  mining  game,  or  if  there  is  any  one  who  has  had  a  wider  or 
more  varied  experience,  they  have  never  heard  of  him.  Every  State  in  the  inter-mountain 
region  west  to  the  Coast  knows  of  him  and  of  his  success  in  this  big  industry. 

Mr.  Mackenzie  first  saw  the  light  of  day  in  the  city  of  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada,  on 
the  24th  day  of  May,  1858.  His  father,  William  Mackenzie,  was  a  blacksmith  of  the  old 
type  we  see  very  little  of  at  the  present  time.  He  believed  in  educating  his  children  and 
sent  John  to  the  public  schools  in  Ontario.  He  finished  the  public  schools,  but  the  wandering 
fever  seized  him  and  for  two  years  he  went  before  the  mast  and  visited  the  .lands  across  the 
water.  After  two  years  of  the  rough  life  at  sea,  Mr.  Mackenzie  decided  to  take  up  a  course 
of  mechanical  engineering  in  Ontario.  This  training  proved  of  invaluable  service  to  him 
through  the  many  years  of  hard  and  arduous  labor  that  followed.  After  finishing  his 
course  in  the  engineering  school,  he  was  employed  by  Cook  Bros.,  Gordon  &  Co.,  of  Ontario, 
as  inspector  and  purchaser  of  lumber  and  timber.  After  having  mastered  the  lumber  busi- 
ness, the  call  of  the  West  began  to  ring  in  his  ears,  and  he  came  to  Eureka,  Nevada,  in 
1887.  Having  an  unlimited  amount  of  ambition,  and  being  of  the  courageous  Scotch  blood, 
he  worked  in  the  mines  at  this  camp  for  two  years,  assimilating  all  the  time  the  knowledge 
of  this  business  from  a  practical  standpoint.  Leaving  Eureka  for  new  fields  in  which  he 
could  gain  more  experience,  he  went  to  Colorado  in  the  interests  of  John  Porter,  in  the 
capacity  of  expert  timberman. 

During  the  Black  Range  excitement  of  1881  he  went  to  that  place,  but  soon  left  and 
located  in  the  following  year  at  Tombstone,  Arizona.  During  all  this  time  he  was  becoming 
an  expert  on  matters  pertaining  to  mining,  and  was  successful.  At  that  time  there  was 
very  little  doing  at  Tombstone,  and,  as  he  was  being  sought  for  at  Eureka,  he  went  back  to 
his  first  love  and  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  construction  crew  of  the  Eureka  Consolidated 
Company's  plant.  After  the  plant  was  completed  and  in  operation,  he  assumed  charge  of 
the  pumping  operations  then  being  conducted  on  a  large  scale  by  the  latter  company. 

This  work  being  completed,  the  wanderings  commenced  again,  and  in  1884  he  went  to 
Butte.  Montana,  taking  charge  of  the  North  Star  Salisbury  Mines.  He  remained  in  this 
famous  copper  camp  for  two  years,  and  his  success  at  the  mines  mentioned  is  well  known 
to  every  one  acquainted  with  Butte  history.  At  the  end  of  two  years,  however,  he  began 
to  look  towards  Eureka  again,  and  began  leasing  and  mining  in  the  Nevada  camp.  He 
stayed  this  time  in  Eureka  four  years,  and  in  1891  he  started  for  the  Black  Hills  country 
and  took  charge  of  the  Orifino  Mine  and  mill,  situated  eight  miles  from  Deadwood.  As  in  all 
his  other  experiences,  he  was  successful  in  his  supervision  of  the  mines,  but  his  life  seemed 
to  turn  towards  new  and  verdant  fields.  Cripple  Creek  was  at  the  height  of  its  boom  at 
that  time,  and  here  went  our  friend  in  18!)3.  The  fact  that  he  became  manager  of  the 
famous  Stratton  Mines,  and  also  of  the  Portland  Mine,  is  the  greatest  monument  to  his  ability 
and  his  thorough  knowledge  of  mines  and  mining.  He  left  here  in  1897,  when  the  Alaska 
boom  was  on,  and  went  to  Dawson  City,  where  he  worked  some  placer  mines  and  also  started 
the  building  of  the  Klondyke  Mines  Railway  which  was  finished  in  1905.  In  1899  he  was 
engaged  by  the  firm  of  Wherner,  Beit  &  Co.,  of  London,  as  manager  of  the  old  John  C. 
Fremont  grant  in  Mariposa  County,  California.  He  opened  up  the  mines  of  this  old  estate, 
built  two  stamp  mills,  constructed  a  dam  across  the  Merced  River,  and  erected  a  power 
plant  for  operating  mines  and  mills.  When  this  work  was  completed,  he  accepted  the 
management  of  Le  Roi  Mine  and  Northport  Smelter  at  Rossland,  B.-  C.,  and  remained  until 
the  company  had  recovered  from  the  disastrous  regime  of  Whittaker.  Wright  and  associates. 

In  the  fall  of  1903  he  retired  from  active  management  of  this  property  and  joined  F.  W. 
Bradley,  M.  E.,  of  San  Francisco.  This  firm  entered  actively  into  mine  examination  work 
and  acted  in  consulting  capacity  for  several  large  properties.  In  1904,  M.  L.  Requa,  a 
mechanical  engineer  of  San  Francisco,  joined  this  firm.  The  latter  had  acquired  options  on 
the  greater  portion  of  the  holdings  of  what  is  now  known  as  the  Nevada  Consolidated  Copper 
Company,  at  Ely,  Nevada.  The  firm  opened  up  these  properties  and  were  heavily  interested, 
and  directed  operations  of  the  same  until  the  Guggenheims  'purchased  control. 

The  career  of  Mr.  Mackenzie  for  the  past  few  years  is  too  well  known  to  be  told  of  here; 
suffice  it  to  say  that  he  is  looked  upon  and  acknowledged  as  one  of  the  foremost  mining  men 
of  the  West. 

He  is  prominently  identified  with  a  great  many  organizations  in  Goldfield  and  San 
Francisco,  living  as  he  does  between  these  two  cities.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Union, 
San  Francisco;  Montezuma  Club,  Goldfield;  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  Scottish  Rite,  and 
many  others.  As  a  director  and  general  manager  of  the  Goldfield  Consolidated  Mines  he 
is  a  well-known  figure  in  the  State,  and  is  loved  and  respected  by  all  who  know  him. 


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J.  P.   LOFTUS 


J.  P.  LOFTUS 

Kecognized  as  foremost  among  successful  mine  operators,  J.  P.  Loftus  is  one 
of  the  best-known  men  in  Goldfield.  His  work  dates  from  the  sage-brush  days 
of  that  camp,  and  to  him  and  his  associates  much  that  has  gone  to  the  making 
of  Goldfield  stands  as  a  credit. 

Of  Irish  descent,  he  was  born  in  1856  in  the  village  of  Clinton,  New  York. 
His  education  is  the  result  of  his  own  unaided  effort.  Through  the  high  school 
of  Wateryille,  New  York,  he  worked  his  way,  and  later  through  Amherst  Col- 
lege, graduating  with  honors  in  the  class  of  '84,  degree  of  A.B.,  later  A.M. 

Though  said  to  be  a  lawyer,  a  newspaper  man  and  a  college  professor, 
the  fact  is  that  he  has  never,  except  incidentally  in  the  beginning  of  his  career, 
been  any  of  those  things.  For  twenty  years  he  has  been  in  the  business  of 
mining,  knows  every  phase  of  it,  from  prospecting  and  hitting  a  drill  to  those 
departments  of  the  work  requiring  the  highest  skill  and  experience.  Outside 
of  mining  he  professes  to  know  nothing,  and  cares  less;  and  yet  his  capacity 
for  doing  things  is  so  generally  recognized,  that  there  is  scarcely  a  matter  of 
importance  in  camp  or  State  with  which  his  name  is  not  connected.  With  a 
willingness  to  serve,  he  has  never  sought  honors  or  recognition  of  any  kind. 
In  politics  a  Democrat,  in  a  State  overwhelmingly  Democratic,  with  the  gov- 
ernorship, Congress,  or  even  the  United  States  Senate,  within  his  easy  reach, 
he  has  never  permitted  his  name  to  be  used.  He  has  no  ambitions,  and  professes 
no  interest  in  public  affairs,  only  to  the  extent  that  he  can  be  of  service.  His 
sole  ambition  is  to  do  his  own  work  in  his  own  way,  out  in  the  open,  to  continue 
the  career  of  builder — empire  builder,  if  you  please — a  work  for  which  by  tem- 
perament, capacity,  courage  and  experience  he  is  amply  fitted. 

In  his  marriage  Mr.  Loftus  was  most  fortunate.  His  wife,  Gertrude  Portia 
Hopkins  Loftus,  is  herself  from  a  long  line  of  builders  and  educators, — Mark 
Hopkins,  who  built  the  Union  Pacific,  and  those  who  have  founded  and  directed 
universities  in  the  East.  They  have  three  children,  James  Hopkins,  Margaret 
Edna  and  Gertrude  Portia.  Though  traveling  extensively,  having  spent  the  last 
season  in  Europe,  the  home  of  the  family  is  Goldfield. 

As  president  of  the  Montezuma  Club  Mr.  Loftus  served  two  years,  the 
period  of  its  greatest  social  and  community  prestige.  Under  his  administration 
the  splendid  stone-and-steel  building  now  the  home  of  the  club  was  built.  He 
built  the  News  building,  the  finest  stone  structure  in  camp.  He  is  an  owner 
in  the  "News"  itself,  the  leading  newspaper  in  the  State.  He  is  the  principal 
owner  and  president  of  the  Nevada  Exploitation  Company,  a  close  corporation 
that  for  four  years  has  paid  a  five  per  cent,  monthly  dividend,  a  record  unpar- 
alleled in  the  mining  business  of  the  State.  He  is  president  of  the  Great  Bend 
Mining  Company,  president  of  the  Loftus-Davis  Federated  Mines  Company; 
president  of  the  News  Publishing  Company ;  vice-president  of  the  Round  Moun- 
tain Mining  Company,— another  dividend-payer;  an  Elk;  a  member  of  the 
University  Club  of  Denver ;  in  fact,  a  man  all  around,  that  touches  life  on  all 
its  sides,  and  has  touched  it  fortunately  and  happily. 


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W.   E.   DOWLEN 


WALTON  E.  DOWLEN 

Perhaps  no  man  is  better  known  and  has  done  more  for  the  upbuilding  of  the 
city  of  Goldfield  than  Walton  E.  Dowlen,  who  came  to  this  camp  in  the  fall  of 
1905.  His  knowledge  of  mines  and  metallurgy  stood  him  in  hand  when  arriv- 
ing there  and  it  is  to  his  credit  that  the  mines  of  that  camp  can  now  ship  $25-ore 
at  a  profit,  when  two  years  before  nothing  but  $100-ore  was  looked  at.  A  repre- 
sentative of  people  across  the  water,  in  Paris  and  in  England,  he  utilized  the 
moneys  of  his  associates  so  judiciously  that  to-day  his  interests  as  well  as  those 
of  his  backers  are  some  of  the  most  important  in  the  Goldfield  District. 

Mr.  Dowlen  was  born  in  Denver,  on  the  14th  of  July,  1872,  and  received  his 
education  and  technical  training  in  mining  and  metallurgy  in  London,  Eng- 
land, at  the  Polytechnical  School  of  Mines  in  that  city.  When  but  eighteen 
years  of  age,  he  went  to  British  Columbia  and  entered  the  service  of  the  Mines 
Department.  He  remained  there  three  years,  and  by  his  thorough  knowledge 
of  the  mining  industry,  coupled  with  his  persistence  and  perseverance,  he  was 
very  successful.  After  remaining  in  this  department  three  years,  the  young  man 
went  as  assistant  engineer  with  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  built  from  San  Fran- 
cisco, of  which  Claus  Spreckles  was  president.  He  stayed  with  this  position  for 
two  years.  He  then  was  given  charge  of  the  "Villa  Rica"  gold-  mines  in 
Georgia,  and  remained  with  that  concern  until  1897.  Seeing  opportunities, 
and  many  of  them,  in  London,  England,  he  crossed  the  water,  and  from  there 
was  sent  to  British  Columbia  by  an  English  syndicate.  He  remained  here  for 
about  a  year,  and  was  very  successful  in  the  enterprise.  He  was  recalled,  how- 
ever, to  London,  and  a  syndicate  sent  him  to  Eastern  Siberia  for  a  syndicate 
known  as  the  East  Siberian  Syndicate  of  London  and  Paris.  He  remained  in 
that  country  for  a  while,  gaining  all  the  while  valuable  experience,  and  then 
drifted  over  to  Nome,  Alaska,  for  the  same  company,  and  then  returned  to 
London. 

About  this  time  the  name  of  Dowlen,  the  engineer,  was  becoming  very  promi- 
nent in  the  mining  and  metallurgical  world,  and  the  successes  of  the  young 
engineer  were  universally  known  and  recognized.  When  in  London  on  this  trip 
the  African  Founders  Syndicate  sent  him  to  Central  Africa,  and  it  was  here 
that  he  did  some  of  his  best  work.  He  was  unfortunate  in  contracting  the 
African  fever.  He  was  compelled  to  return  to  London  in  1901,  and  remained 
in  a  hospital  for  four  weeks,  suffering  the  ravages  of  the  disease.  The  same 
syndicate  were  anxious  to  have  him,  and  when  he  recovered  from  the  illness  he 
was  sent  to  the  California  oil  fields.  He  remained  in  that  country  for  two  years, 
and  then  returned  to  England,  going  by  the  way  of  Alberta,  where  he  made 
very  extensive  and  complete  reports  of  the  coal  properties  in  that  country,  in 
which  the  famous  Emil  Arton  was  interested,  who,  it  may  be  recalled,  was  the 
last  of  the  three  promoters  of  the  Panama  deal  in  Paris  to  commit  suicide. 
His  operations  from  this  time  on  have  been  in  and  around  Goldfield,  and  he 
has  been  uniformly  successful  in  all  of  his  undertakings. 

He  is  vice-president  of  the  Nevada  Goldfield  Reduction  Company,  one  of  the 
biggest  propositions  in  the  State,  and  this  plant  alone  is  a  monument  to  the 
keenness  and  ability  of  this  young  man.  He  is  a  prominent  club  man,  being 
a  member  of  the  Montezuma  Club  of  Goldfield,  the  Sports  Club  of  London,  and 
an  associate  of  the  Institute  of  Mining  and  Metallurgy  in  London,  as  well  as  an 
associate  of  the  Institute  of  Mechanical  Engineers  of  London. 

His  domestic  life  is  a  happy  one,  he  having  married  Miss  Marie  Boul- 
frois  in  January,  1906.  His  career  to  the  present  time  has  been  a  most  remark- 
able one,  and  the  fact  that  he  is  still  a  young  man  would  indicate  a  brilliant 
future.  He  is  a  tireless  worker  and  very  straightforward  in  all  dealings.  His 
efforts  in  settling  the  trouble  between  the  Mine  Owners'  Association  and  the 
miners  while  acting  president,  and  settling  everything  amicably,  will  be  a 
lasting  monument  to  his  fairness  and  honesty. 

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GEORGE    WINGFIELD 

At  the  head  of  the  gigantic  corporation  of  the  Goldfield  Consolidated  is  George 
Wingfield,  former  vice-president,  but  who  recently  succeeded  United  States  Senator  George 
S.  Nixon  as  the  head  of  the  concern.  He  is,  frankly  speaking,  a  mere  youth,  only  a  little 
over  thirty  years  of  age,  but  with  a  head  that  would  do  credit  to  a  staid  business  man 
of  sixty. 

Mr.  Wingfield  is  known  as  the  "Napoleon  of  Nevada  Finance."  He  spent  much  of  his 
earlier  life  in  Oregon,  where  he  turned  his  hand  to  almost  anything,  including  punching 
cattle.  He  landed  in  Tonopah  before  the  boom  started,  and  went  to  Winnemucca,  wEere 
he  had  eccentric  luck.  He  returned  to  Tonopah,  ready  to  take  a  chance,  and  made  win- 
nings that  seemed  fortunes  to  him.  He  then  came  down  to  Goldfield  during  the  early 
rush  and  plunged  with  his  stake  into  the  stock  game.  He  dealt  in  Florence,  Mohawk, 
Kendall,  Sandstorm  and  other  securities,  and  Dame  Fortune  was  invariably  with  him. 
His  hundreds  crept  into  thousands;  and  by  judicious  investment  of  his  thousands  in 
connection  with  the  operations  of  Senator  Nixon,  they  soon  mounted  into  millions,  and 
to-day  he  is  one  of  the  wealthiest  young  men  in  the  world,  and  the  largest  individual  holder 
of  Consolidated  stock,  which  is  selling  now  around  $8.50  per  share.  Mr.  Wingfield  recently 
married,  and  has  homes  in  both  Reno  and  Goldfield. 

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THE  GOLDFIELD  CONSOLIDATED 

The  corporation  known  as  the  Goldfield  Consolidated  Mines  Company  heads  the  entire 
list  of  gold-producers  in  this  country  as  a  dividend-payer.  Its  production  is  immense, 
its  acreage  large,  and  its  system  of  extraction  and  treatment  of  ores  as  nearly  perfect 
as  mining  ingenuity  can  make  it.  It  is,  frankly,  the  wonder  of  all  mining  men  and  visitors 
to  Nevada,  not  only  on  account  of  its  splendid  equipment,  but  by  reason  of  the  tremen- 
dous bodies  of  ore  that  are  visible  to  the  eye  and  that  insure  the  operation  of  the  company 
for  years  to  come,  without  inserting  another  round  of  shots. 

The  first  dividend  of  the  merger  was  in  October  of  1907,  when  10  cents  a  share  was 
declared.  This  amounted  roundly  to  $350,000.  The  next  was  at  the  same  rate  in  the  fol- 
lowing month,  with  corresponding  total.  The  first  dividend  since  the  new  mill  was  com- 
pleted  was  paid  only  a  short'  time  ago,  and  was  at  the  rate  of  30  cents  per  share.  This 
meant  the  distribution  of  approximately  $1,066,000  in  gold.  Since  then  another  dividend 
has  been  declared  payable  on  the  last  day  of  the  coming  month,  and  also  involving, 
roundly,  $1,066,000.  It  is  the  policy  of  the  company  to  make  quarterly  payments  at  the 
rate  of  $1,066,000,  or  thereabouts.  This  would  give  a  total  for  the  year  of  about  $4,250,000 
in  straight  "velvet,"  to  say  nothing  of  extra  dividends,  such  as  are  also  contemplated. 

Stratton's  Independence  at  Cripple  Creek  paid  jn  one  year  $1,789,000,  and  the  Home- 
stake  paid  in  one  year  about  $1,250,000  in  dividends.  But  here  is  a  mine  on  the  desert 
with  practically  $4,500,000  a  year  dividends  assured. 

The  corporation  is  at  present  working  four  sh'afts.  The  Mohawk  is  down  600  feet, 
with  four  main  levels,  all  working.  The  Cleremont  shaft,  on  the  Jumbo  claim,  is  down 
1,000  feet,  and  has  five  main  levels,  four  of  which  are  being  operated.  The  Combination 
shaft,  on  the  Combination  claim,  is  down  380  feet,  with  six  levels,  all  of  them  being 
worked.  The  famous  "Hampton  stope"  was  first  picked  up  on  the  fourth  level,  and  since 
then  has  been  opened  up  on  the  fifth  and  sixth  levels.  Stoping  is  now  in  progress  on  the 
fourth  and  fifth  levels.  This  stope,  discovered  by  Hampton,  is  a  marvel.  The  ledge,  at 
its  widest  portion  is  70  feet  across,  all  pay  ore.  Thirty  feet  of  this,  from  70  to  80  feet  in 
length,  will  average  not  far  from  $200  straight  across,  while  a  rich  streak  in  the  center,  from 
5  to  7  feet  wide,  will  give  an  average  value  in  gold  of  $500  to  $1,100  per  ton.  The  forma- 
tion is  of  telluride  character,  with,  at  times,  great  splotches  of  free  gold  running  all 
through  it.  This  Hampton  stope  alone,  it  has  been  figured,  would  insure  dividends  at 
the  present  rate  for  three  years.  The  Red  Top  shaft  has  attained  a  depth  of  330  feet, 
with  four  levels  all  in  operation.  Through  this  bore,  the  Lucky  Boy  claim,  all  virgin 
country,  is  being  worked.  The  ledge  is  continuous  and  averages  15  feet  in  width.  It 
is  opened  up  to  about  300  or  400  feet  south  from  the  Red  Top  shaft,  and  the  average  value 
across  will  be  from  $30  to  $40  per  ton. 

The  Consolidated  Mines  Company's  properties  in  Goldfield  have  at  least  20  miles  of 
underground  workings.  This  is  a  camp  not  five  years  of  age,  and  the  record  of  a  company 
much  younger.  There  are  380  acres  embraced  in  the  holdings.  The  new  mill  completed 
some  six  months  ago,  cost,  together  with  company's  railroad  running  from  the  mines 
to  the  bins,  about  $900,000.  For  the  purposes  of  best  results  from  the  present  process,  it 
is  always  aimed  to  keep  down  the  value  of  the  ore  handled  at  the  mill,  by  mixing  the 
low  grade  with  the  medium,  and  reserving  the  high  stuff  for  shipment  to  the  smelters. 
The  big  mill  treats  an  average  of  635  tons  a  day,  valued  at  $35  a  ton;  and  the  Combina- 
tion mill,  the  old  one  of  the  company,  handled  100  tons  a  day  of  the  same  character  of 
rock.  The  company's  pay  roll  amounts  to  at  least  $60,000  a  month,  or  about  $2,000  a  day. 


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JOSEPH  ROBINSON   WALKER    (Deceased) 

Joseph  Robinson  Walker,  deceased,  merchant  and  banker,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  one 
of  the  most  prominent  business  men  of  the  State,  was  a  native  of  Yeadon,  a  small  place  near 
Leeds,  Yorkshire,  England,  being  born  there  August  29,  183G.  The  family  line  is  traced 
back  as  far  as  1700.  Matthew  Walker,  his  father,  married  Mercy  Long,  and  followed  the 
vocation  of  a  merchant  in  England,  until  the  spring  of  1850,  when  he  brought  his  whole 
family,  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  to  America. 

Landing  at  New  Orleans,  the  party  ascended  the  Mississippi  River  to  St.  Louis,  and 
settled  there,  the  head  of  the  family  going  at  once  into  business.  In  1851,  during  the 
scourge  of  cholera,  the  father  and  two  daughters  were  carried  off  by  the  disease.  Joseph  R. 
had  received  a  good  practical  education  for  a  boy  before  leaving  his  native  land,  and  gave 
promise  of  being  of  great  assistance  to  his  father  at  the  store  in  St.  Louis,  when  the  death 
of  the  father  proved  a  terrible  blow  to  the  family  and  interrupted  their  plans.  All  four 
of  the  boys,  however,  secured  positions  in  fancy  goods  and  notion  stores,  Joseph  R.  going 
into  one  on  Broadway,  where  he  held  a  place  as  a  bright,  active  and  efficient  young  clerk 
for  two  years. 


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At  that  time  the  fertile  regions  beyond  the  plains  were  attracting  much  attention,  and 
during  that  period  the  mother  and  her  boys  discussed  repeatedly  the  advisability  of  moving 
out  to  the  then  new  Western  country.  In  April,  1852,  the  decision  was  made.  All  their 
household  effects  were  disposed  of,  a  strong  and  specially  made  wagon  was  bought,  and  the 
family  took  the  long  and  fatiguing  journey  over  the  plains  and  mountains  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  Utah,  where  they  arrived  without  serious  accident,  in  September,  1852.  Upon  their 
arrival  the  entire  worldly  possessions  of  the  family  amounted  to  a  small  sum  of  money, 
four  oxen,  an  Indian  pony,  which  had  been  bought  from  the  Indians  en  route,  in  exchange  for 
a  rifle  and  some  powder,  and  a  steer  obtained  the  same  way  from  a  trader  for  a  keg  of 
powder.  The  oxen  were  soon  traded  for  an  adobe  house  and  lot,  where  the  family  lived  for 
several  months,  and  then  leased  a  log  house  on  the  spot  where  they  subsequently  buTit  their 
magnificent  residences.  Provisions  were  dear  in  Salt  Lake  in  1853,  flour  rising  to  $20  per 
hundred  pounds,  and  the  Indian  pony  was  traded  for  800  pounds  of  that  commodity,  but 
only  half  the  bargain  price  was  paid,  400  pounds. 

Until  1856,  Joseph  R.  and  his  brothers  worked  during  the  winter  in  hauling  wood  from 
the  mountains.  Meanwhile,  however,  the  Indians  had  begun  to  attack  the  settlements  and 
were  killing  a  great  many  people,  and  among  the  volunteers  who  enlisted  to  help  protect 
the  inhabitants  of  the  farming  regions  near  Salt  Lake,  was  Joseph  R.  Walker.  When 
the  excitement  had  apparently  subsided,  thirteen  men — Mr.  Walker  among  the  number — were 
detailed  to  drive  a  herd  of  cattle  into  Salt  Lake  City,  a  distance  of  eighty  miles.  The 
first  night  out  they  took  proper  precautions  against  surprise  at  night  by  Indians,  and  the 
result  proved  their  wisdom.  The  stockade  was  attacked  during  the  night  by  the  Indians,  who 
made  several  furious  assaults  in  an  effort  to  stampede  the  cattle  and  horses.  The  foe  was 
beaten  off,  however,  with  a  loss  of  five  or  six  of  their  number,  and  without  having  damaged 
the  stockade,  but  two  horses  and  twenty  cattle  were  shot  and  one  of  the  men  in  the  detail 
was  wounded. 

The  trading  instincts  of  Mr.  Walker  prompted  him  early  in  his  career  in  Utah,  to  obtain 
a  mule  team,  a  wagon,  and  a  stock  of  dry  goods  and  notions,  all  on  credit,  and  to  begin 
business  on  his  own  account.  His  early  training  then  proved  of  value  to  him,  and  this,  com- 
bined, with  unusual  talent  and  address,  made  him  successful  from  the  start.  The  entire  out- 
fit was  paid  for  in  the  first  few  months,  and  from  that  time  forward  his  progress  was  rapid. 
In  1856  Mr.  Walker  started  for  California,  and  in  1857  settled  in  Carson  Valley  as  clerk 
for  a  trader,  and  later  built  a  store  at  Gold  Canon,  in  a  placer-mining  camp  named  Johns- 
town, near  the  afterwards  famous  Comstock  lode.  Here  he  found  occupation  and  profit  in 
a  large  trade  and  the  exchange  of  goods  to  miners  for  gold  dust. 

In  August,  1858,  Mr.  Walker  returned  to  Utah.  General  Albert  Sidney  Johnston  had 
established  a  camp  of  United  States  troops  at  Camp  Floyd,  about  fifty  miles  from  Salt 
Lake,  and  Mr.  Walker,  repairing  to  that  point,  served  as  a  clerk  with  the  army  long  enough 
to  find  out  what  the  situation  was,  and  then  with  his  three  brothers,  opened  a  store  at 
Camp  Floyd  with  a  general  supply  of  dry  goods,  groceries,  cigars  and  tobacco,  and  such 
other  articles  as  could  be  sold  to  the  soldiers,  all  bought  in  Salt  Lake  on  credit,  at  sixty  per 
cent,  advance  on  first  cost  and  thirty  cents  more  per  pound  added  for  freight.  The  first 
year  the  brothers  made  a  profit  of  $20,000.  Meanwhile,  in  Salt  Lake,  in  1859,  the  Walker 
brothers  had  opened  a  large  general  store  and  bank,  and  this  business  has  been  carried 
on  successfully  to  the  present  day,  although  the  four  Walker  brothers  dissolved  partnership 
in  1884.  As  at  Camp  Floyd,  banking  has  always  been  carried  on  in  connection  with  the 
general  merchandising  business. 

Illustrative  of  the  difficulties  Utah  merchants  labored  under  in  the  early  times,  it  is 
stated  that,  when  in  1864  Mr.  Walker  went  to  New  York  City  and  bought  a  stock  of  goods 
worth  $250,000,  he  had  to  pay  fifteen  to  twenty  cents  a  pound  for  freight  and  found  that  it 
was  impossible  to  get  insurance  on  the  stock  while  it  was  in  transit,  and  when '  the  goods 
were  unloaded  in  Utah,  they  had  cost  him  $350,000.  Mr.  Walker  was  always  a  merchant  and 
banker,  but  was  later  largely  interested  in  real  estate  in  Utah  and  California,  and  in  mining 
enterprises  in  both  States.  The  first  stamp  mill  in  Utah  was  built  by  the  Walker  brothers 
in  the  Ophir  District. 

In  addition  to  being  a  member  of  the  immense  Walker  Bros.  Dry  Goods  Company,  Joseph 
R.  Walker  was  a  member  of  Walker  Bros.,  Bankers,  and  president  of  the  Alice  Gold  &  Silver 
Mining  Company,  at  Walkerville,  Mont.,  and  extensively  interested  in  mines  and  other 
enterprises.  While  he  derived  great  pleasure  from  the  management  of  large  interests,  he 
was  a  lover  of  home  and  family.  '  He  contributed  liberally  to  worthy  objects,  and  promoted 
all  measures  calculated  to  advance  the  welfare  of  the  community  in  which  he  lived.  He 
was  a  strong,  genial,  capable  man,  untiring  in  labor,  alert  to  opportunity,  a  man  of  ideas  and 
always  soiind  in  counsel.  He  was  not  a  politician,  but  a  business  man,  but  took  the  lively 
interest  in  public  affairs  which  every  American  citizen  must  feel.  He  died  in  the  early 
evening  of  January  6th,  1001.  Two  years  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Walker,  the  heirs  sold 
their  interest  in  Walker  Bros.'  Bank,  and  acquired  control  of  Walker  Bros.  Dry  Goods 
Company. 

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S.    S.   WALKEK,   DECEASED 


SAMUEL  SHARP  WALKER   (Deceased) 

The  late  Samuel  Sharp  Walker  was  the  eldest  of  the  four  well- 
known  Walker  brothers,  whose  names  are  known,  and  honored  and 
respected  and  who  have  accomplished  so  much  towards  the  develop- 
ment and  up-building  of  Utah  and  its  resources. 

Samuel  Sharp  Walker  was  a  son  of  Matthew  and  Mercy  Long 
Walker,  and  was  born  at  Yeadon,  Yorkshire,  England,  September  22, 
1835.  The  elder  Walker  was  a  prominent  wool  merchant  of  Yorkshire, 
England,  and  emigrated  to  this  country  in  1850,  and  while  on  his  way 
to  Utah  he  died  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  His  wife  survived  him,  and 
passed  away  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  December,  1863.  Samuel  Sharp 
Walker,  together  with  his  brothers,  J.  R.,  D.  F.,  and  M.  H.,  arrived  in 
Salt  Lake  City  in  September,  1852.  After  a  couple  of  years  working  in 
St.  Louis  as  clerks  and  peddling  notions  they  finally  saved  enough 
money  to  move  on  to  Utah.  The  brothers  w'ere  natural  born  merchants, 
and  came  to  the  notice  of  William  Nixon,  the  father  of  general  mer- 
chandising in  Utah,  who  gave  them  employment.  The  family  settled 
first  in  the  Third  ward,  where  they  afterwards  purchased  property, 
gradually  acquiring  possession  of  the  greater  part  of  a  city  block  in 
the  Seventh  ward,  where  they  afterwards  lived,  and  there  they  built  the 
handsome  homes  of  the  Walker  brothers  at  the  present  day. 

Sharp  Walker  turned  his  attention  to  farming  and  engaged  in 
agricultural  pursuits  until  1859,  when  the  famous  house  of  Walker 
Brothers  was  organized  at  Camp  Floyd.  Here  he  joined  his  brothers 
in  conducting  the  business  and  supplying  the  United  States  troops 
with  merchandise.  They  soon  built  up  a  large  business  and  became 
wealthy.  After  the  departure  of  the  troops,  the  brothers  moved  their 
store  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  the  famous  store  of  Walker  Brothers  has 
been  a  landmark  there  ever  since,  and  has  grown  to  be  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  complete  dry  goods  establishments  in  the  entire  West- 
ern country.  The  firm  started  in  a  small  way,  but  soon  acquired  the 
location  in  which  they  are  at  the  present  day.  This  was  in  1866. 

The  firm  afterwards  engaged  in  finance,  and  the  present  banking 
house  of  Walker  Brothers  was  the  outcome.  Mining  and  other  invest- 
ments were  also  made,  including  the  famous  Emma  mine,  which  was 
afterwards  sold  to  English  capitalists.  The  firm  met  with  much  suc- 
cess and  only  a  few  reverses,  notable  among  which  was  the  burning 
of  the  Walker  opera  house  July  3,  1889.  After  the  fire  the  building- 
was  remodeled  and  made  into  an  office  building  known  as  the  Atlas 
block.  This  was  burned  in  1903  and  later  rebuilt,  and  is  now  one 
of  the  largest  office  buildings  in  the  city. 

The  Walker  brothers  were  substantial  citizens,  public  spirited  and 
benevolent  in  the  use  of  their  wealth,  and  up  to  the  time  of  the  death 
of  S.  S.  W^alker,  which  occurred  in  1887,  he  was  actively  engaged  in 
business  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Samuel  S.  Walker  was  married  January  5,  1857,  and  was  the  father 
of  ten  children,  Samuel,  Frederick,  Elizabeth,  Emma,  Mercy,  Nellie, 
Matthew  Sharp,  Fannie,  Doris,  and  John  Walker. 

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W.  W.  CHISHOLM   (Deceased) 


WILLIAM  WALLACE  CHISHOLM   (Deceased) 

It  was  in  the  year  of  1864  that  the  late  William  W.  Chisholm  arrived  in 
Utah,  where  he  was  destined  to  become  one  of  the  best-known  and  most 
representative  citizens  in  the  inter-mountain  country.  Residing  in  Salt  Lake 
City  from  1889  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  at  all  times  a  useful  and 
public-spirited  citizen,  and  his  loss  is  deplored  by  all  who  knew  him. 

He  was  a  native  of  Hazel  Green,  Grant  County,  Wisconsin,  and  was  born 
June  26,  1842.  His  father  was  Robert  Bruce  Chisholm,  and  his  mother,  Sarah 
Van  Valkenburg  Chisholm.  Before  settling  in  Wisconsin  the  elder  Chisholm 
resided  in  Chicago,  and  was  a  large  property  owner  there,  including  the  lots 
upon  which  the  Tremont  Hotel  stands.  He  was  a  pioneer  in  Chicago,  and  was  a 
brick  manufacturer,  and  was  also  interested  in  mining.  W.  W.  Chisholm 
received  an  early  education  at  Hazel  Green,  and  in  1854  he  went  to  Monona, 
Clayton  County,  Iowa,  to  live  with  an  uncle,  who  was  a  cabinet-maker,  which 
occupation  young  Chisholm  followed  for  two  years  and  then  learned  the 
printer's  trade  at  Winona,  Wisconsin,  securing  employment  on  the  "Demo- 
crat," where  he  worked  for  the  first  year  for  fifty  dollars.  In  1863  he  went  to 
Elgin,  where  his  father  had  bought  a  farm,  and  there  he  made  his  home  and 
attended  the  Elgin  Academy.  In  1864  father  and  son  started  for  the  West  by 
stage  to  Omaha,  and  there  they  purchased  mule  teams  and  wagons  and  started 
for  Virginia  City,  Montana,  reaching  there  in  September  of  that  year. 

His  first  occupation  after  arrival  in  Utah  was  as  a  wood-chopper,  and  the 
following  spring  worked  some  mining  claims,  without  success.  Mining  was  then 
in  its  infancy  in  Utah.  In  the  meantime  the  elder  Chisholm  had  located  claims 
in  the  Pahranagat  Mining  District,  and  in  1865  father  and  son  returned  East 
and  disposed  of  them  for  cash. 

In  the  spring  of  1866  W.  W..  Chisholm  w*ent  to  Chicago  to  follow  his  trade 
of  printing,  securing  employment  on  the  "Post,"  where  he  remained  for  three 
years,  and  again  returned  to  the  West  by  rail,  arriving  in  Utah  May  10,  1869, 
the  day  of  the  meeting  of  the  Union  Pacific  and  Central  Pacific  at  Promontory. 
Here  he  joined  the  late  Captain  Woodman  at  Bingham,  and  went  with  him  to 
Little  Cottonwood,  where  the  Emma  Mine  had  been  located.  He  assisted  Cap- 
tain Woodman  in  the  management  of  that  property  and  was,  in  fact,  the  mana- 
ger, the  Captain  having  so  many  interests  to  handle.  He  remained  with  the 
Emma  until  1872,  when  the  Walker  brothers  obtained  control  of  the  property; 
then  he  retired.  Returning  to  Salt  Lake,  he  devoted  his  time  to  looking  after  his 
father's  property,  and  his  own  mining  interests  throughout  the  State. 

On  the  9th  of  February,  1876,  Mr.  Chisholm  was  married  to  Miss  N.  Jeanette 
Kendall,  sister  of  J.  D.  Kendall,  who  subsequently  became  his  most  intimate  busi- 
ness associate.  The  same  year  the  Centennial-Eureka  Mine  was  located,  but 
nothing  much  in  the  way  of  development  and  production  was  accomplished 
until  September,  1884,  when  Mr.  Kendall  was  put  in  charge.  Operations  then 
began  with  energy,  and  the  mine  was  developed  and  became  a  great  producer 
under  his  able  management.  By  the  recent  death  of  Mr.  W.  W.  Chisholm,  which 
occurred  at  Los  Angeles,  March  19,  1909,  Utah  loses  one  of  its  most  prominent 
mining  men,  as  well  as  a  useful  and  honored  citizen. 


349 


JOHX    SHARP,   BISHOP,   DECEASED 


BISHOP  JOHN  SHARP   (Deceased) 

One  of  the  sturdiest  characters  Mormonism  ever  brought  to  Utah  as  a  con- 
vert, was  the  late  Bishop  John  Sharp,  of  the  former  twentieth  ecclesiastical  ward 
in  Salt  Lake,  he  being  elevated  to  that  position  in  1854.  Born  at  the  Devon 
Iron  Works  in  Clachmannanshire,  Scotland,  in  1820,  and  going  to  work  in  the 
coal  pit  when  he  was  but  eight  years  old,  he  became  an  expert  coal  miner,  and  a 
singular  coincidence  was  that  with  the  promiscuous  child-labor  that  prevailed  in 
that  land  in  those  days,  Jane  Patterson,  whom  he  later  made  his  wife,  went  to 
work  in  the  same  pit  at  practically  the  same  time.  In  1847  he  became  a  convert 
to  the  Mormon  faith,  and  the  same  year  came  to  America,  reaching  Utah,  via 
New  Orleans,  in  1850,  accompanied  by  his  two  brothers,  Adam  and  Joseph 
Sharp,  and  by  his  wife  and  their  two  sons,  John  and  James  Sharp,  then  nine  and 
seven  years  old  respectively. 

His  first  activities  in  Salt  Lake  were  quarrying  stone  for  the  building  of 
the  Tabernacle  and  the  Tithing  House,  and  he  was  shortly  made  superintendent 
of  the  quarries,  and  later  superintendent  of  public  construction  for  Salt  Lake. 
He  was  a  man  of  great  intelligence  and  constructive  capacity,  and  was  the 
largest  sub-contractor  under  the  Brigham  Young  contract  with  the  Union  Pacific 
Railroad,  building  all  the  grade  with  the  Utah  men  and  teams  from  Echo  Can- 
yon to  Promontory.  John  Sharp  had  dictated  the  terms  of  the  contract.  They 
were  that  eighty  per  cent,  of  the  engineers'  estimates  of  completed  work  should 
be  paid,  for  the  men's  wages,  each  month,  and  the  final  settlement  made  when 
the  work  was  finished.  He  was  making  money  on  his  contracts  on  the  Union 
Pacific,  and  when  the  Utah  Central  Railway  Company  was  organized  he  became 
a  large  subscriber  for  the  stock  and  one  of  its  directors,  and  he  built  and 
equipped  the  road  and  followed  it  up  with  the  building  of  the  Utah  Southern 
Railway,  reaching  to  Milford.  In  1871  he  was  superintendent  of  the  Utah 
Central ;  in  1873  he  became  its  president,  and  vice-president  of  the  Utah  South- 
ern Railway,  later  becoming  a  director  of  the  entire  Union  Pacific  system,  with 
a  seat  on  the  Executive  Committee,  and  always  with  a  potent  voice. 

Bishop  Sharp  was  physically  of  herculean  proportions,  and  his  activities 
had  made  him  a  very  wealthy  man,  and  a  power  in  the  financial  circles  of  the 
Pacific  railways.  He  had  made  money  ever  since  his  arrival  in  Utah,  Brigham 
Young,  early  recognizing  his  exceptional  abilities,  placing  all  kinds  of  activ- 
ities and  opportunities  before  him.  A  pet  cognomen  was  "The  Railroad 
Bishop,"  and  in  everything  he  turned  his  attention  to  he  made  work  for  men 
and  paid  good  wages  always.  He  early  acquired  heavy  interests  in  the  coal 
lands  in  southeastern  Utah,  and  supplied  the.  Territory  with  its  fuel. 

He  died  in  the  seventy-second  year  of  his  life  at  his  home  on  East  Brigham 
Street,  Salt  Lake  City,  December  23,  1891,  from  an  aggravated  attack  of  la 
grippe,  after  a  brief  illness.  He  left  a  large  family,  five  sons  and  nine  daugh- 
ters, all  the  sons  and  eight  of  the  daughters  being  married  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  His  funeral  was  held  at  his  late  residence  on  East  Brigham  Street, 
on  Sunday,  December  27,  1891,  and  among  those  who  attended  were  George  Q. 
Cannon,  Angus  M.  Cannon,  William  B.  Preston,  John  R.  Winder,  Bishop  Wil- 
liam Thorn,  Bishop  E.  F.  Sheets,  John  E.  Dooley,  W.  S.  McCornick,  S.  W. 
Eccles,  George  Y.  Wallace,  and  Judge  Charles  S.  Zane.  The  directors  of  the 
Deseret  National  Bank  and  of  the  Z.  C.  M.  I.  were  all  present.  The  funeral 
address  was  delivered  by  Elder  John  Henry  Smith,  and  was  eloquently  eulo- 
gistic of  the  life  of  deceased.  The  Cambrian  Glee  Club  rendered  some  of  tha 
favorite  hymns  of  Bishop  Sharp ;  the  bier  was  buried  in  flowers,  and  during 
the  two  hours  the  body  lay  in  state  in  the  main  hall  of  the  residence  hundreds 
of  his  friends  and  admirers  passed  in  line  to  take  a  last  view  of  the  dead.  The 
pall-bearers  were  James  C.  Livingston,  C.  H.  Livingston,  George  Swan,  Samuel 
H.  Mill,  George  G.  Bywater,  John  Acomb,  Zebulon  Jacobs  and  J.  H.  Rumel, 
Jr.  The  interment  was  in  the  city  cemetery,  and  the  procession  that  followed 
the  remains  to  their  last  resting  place  was  never  greater  at  any  funeral  in 
Salt  Lake. 

351 


K.    MACKINTOSH,,    DECEASED 


RICHARD  MACKINTOSH    (Deceased) 

Among  the  pioneers  of  mining,  both  in  Utah  and  Nevada,  there  is  no  name 
better  known  than  that  of  Richard  Mackintosh.  He  was  the  son  of  Captain 
William  Mackintosh,  of  the  93rd  Royal  Highlanders,  and  was  born  in  Dublin 
Barracks,  Ireland,  while  his  father's  regiment  was  quartered  there.  Richard 
Mackintosh  left  Europe  when  a  mere  boy  of  nineteen,  and  made  the  long  trip 
around  the  Horn  from  New  York  to  California,  arriving  there  in  the  later 
days  of  the  great  gold  excitement.  After  cleaning  up  enough  gold  dust  to  con- 
tinue his  mining  operations,  he  journeyed  to  Virginia  City,  Nevada,  and 
took  active  part  in  the  early  development  of  the  famous  Comstock.  From 
Nevada  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  in  1871,  and  continued  his  activities  in  mining  in 
Utah,  a  field  at  that  time  comparatively  new,  and  was  the  first  man  in  this 
State  to  engage  in  the  public  commercial  sampling  of  ores.  The  Pioneer  Sam- 
pler at  Sandy,  Salt  Lake  County,  was  his  first  undertaking  in  that  line,  and 
later  as  the  mines  near  Park  City  proved  of  great  value  he  built  the  Mack- 
intosh Sampler  at  that  camp.  The  sampler  in  Park  City  still  belongs  to  the 
Mackintosh  Estate,  and  is  at  present  being  operated.  The  Pioneer  Sampler, 
which  he  had  operated  at  Sandy  for  many  years,  was  sold  to  Mr.  A.  J.  Gush- 
ing, w7ho  later  disposed  of  it  to  the  present  Pioneer  Ore  Sampling  Company. 

Mr.  Mackintosh,  associated  with  Mr.  R.  C.  Chambers  and  others,  in  the 
year  1889  acquired  by  purchase  the  Diamond  and  Excelsior  mines  at  Eureka, 
Nevada,  from  which  a  large  tonnage  of  high-grade  ores  has  been  profitably 
mined  continuously  to  the  present  time,  and  this  output  has  always  been 
and  is  yet  shipped  to  the  Salt  Lake  Valley  Smelters  through  the  Pioneer 
Sampler  at  Sandy. 

In  the  year  1880  Mr.  Mackintosh  was  married  to  Miss  Emma  Goss,  only 
daughter  of  Mr.  George  Goss,  who  was  associated  with  the  construction  of 
the  Denver  and  Rio  Grande  Railroad,  the  building  of  the  first  railroad  lines 
into  Bingham  and  Little  Cottonwood  Canyons  and  the  gravity  tramways  to 
the  mines.  Mrs.  Mackintosh  was  a  popular  and  well-loved  woman,  widely 
known  for  her  generous  giving  to  the  cause  of  charity.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Mackintosh  devoted  much  time  to  philanthropy,  and  Mr.  Mackintosh's  genial 
soul  delighted  in  this  use  of  his  wealth.  The  couple  had  no  children.  The 
estate  was  inherited  by  a  niece  of  Mr.  Mackintosh,  Miss  Blanche  L.  Mackin- 
tosh, who,  since  her  marriage  to  Dr.  A.  E.  Rykert,  has  resided  in  Paris,  France. 

Richard  Mackintosh  was  one  of  the  Utah  Commissioners  to  the  World's 
Columbian  Exposition  in  Chicago  in  1893,  and  filled  the  position  with  great 
credit  to  himself  and  the  State.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Alta  Club, 
and  its  president  for  four  successive  years.  Although  a  public-spirited  man,  he 
was  never  induced  to  accept  political  office  until  the  election  for  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  in  1895,  to  which  he  was  elected  and  served  through  the  ses- 
sion with  marked  ability  and  intelligence.  He  thus  took  an  active  part  in  the 
framing  of  the  fundamental  laws  of  the  proposed  new  State  in  the  Territory  of 
which  he  had  been  an  active  factor  for  many  years. 

Mr.  Mackintosh  began  to  fail  in  health  soon  after  his  wife's  death,  in  1895. 
A  cancer,  long  unsuspected,  at  last  compelled  his  retirement  from  active  busi- 
ness life,  and  the  end  came  in  February,  1900,  five  years  and  two  months  after 
the  death  of  Mrs.  Mackintosh. 


353 


J.  D.  WOOD,  DECEASED 


JAMES  DAVID  WOOD    (Deceased) 

The  late  James  David  Wood  was  a  typical  representative  of  the  self-made 
man,  and  his  successful  career  from  a  poor  boy  to  the  head  of  the  largest 
cattle  raising  concern  in  the  United  States  is  interesting  and  worthy  of  a  prom- 
inent place  in  the  history  of  the  inter-mountain  States,  where  Mr.  Wood  spent 
the  greater  part  of  his  long  and  useful  career. 

James  D.  Wood  was  a  representative  of  one  of  the  first  families  of  Vir- 
ginia and  Tennessee,  and  the  name  was  very  prominent  socially  and  otherwise 
during  Colonial  times  and  immediately  succeeding  the  period  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. His  mother,  Marcia  Cassandra  Fowler,  derived  her  ancestry  from  the 
distinguished  physician  and  mathematician  of  that  name.  His  father,  Jeptha 
Wood,  was  an  early  pioneer  in  Sullivan  County,  Missouri,  where  he  was  a 
civil  engineer,  and  later  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser  of  importance ;  and  it  was 
there  that  young  Wood  received  his  first  knowledge  of  the  business  that  was 
destined  to  bring  him  fame  and  fortune. 

James  David  Wood  was  born  August  27,  1841,  and  his  education  was 
obtained  in  a  log  cabin  wherein  was  located  a  district  school,  and  he  was 
reared  on  a  farm.  At  an  early  age  he  started  out  in  life  in  the  face  of  hard- 
ships and  many  obstacles  that  would  discourage  a  less  determined  and  coura- 
geous boy,  but  he  plodded  on  and  eventually  embarked,  in  a  small  way,  in  a 
mercantile  business,  opening  a  village  store  in  his  native  place.  In  1861,  at 
the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  he  lost  all  his  business  and  had  to  seek  new 
fields  for  his  business  talents;  therefore,  obtaining  a  loan,  he  began  the  business 
of  shipping  cattle  to  Chicago,  and  it  is  a  fact  that  in  the  early  days  he  grazed 
his  cattle  on  the  very  area  where  now  stand  the  great  skyscrapers  and  beauti- 
ful residences  of  that  city,  which  is  a  striking  example  of  the  wonderful  growth 
of  Chicago  during  one  man's  lifetime.  In  1863  the  placer  gold  mining  excite- 
ment in  Montana  attracted  Mr.  Wood  and  a  year  later  he  started  in  that  direc- 
tion, locating  first  at  Atchison,  Kansas.  Then  he  contracted  to  drive  a  freight 
train  across  the  plains  to  Montana,  for  which  he  obtained  his  board.  This 
outfit  consisted  of  twenty-six  wagons,  with  six  mules  to  draw  each  one.  His 
first  salary  was  $20  per  month,  and  he  was  glad  to  get  it,  though  the  work  was 
a  hazardous  one,  and  it  took  him  seventy-three  days  and  nights  to  make  the 
journey,  being  frequently  stampeded  by  Sioux  Indians,  then  very  troublesome 
to  voyagers  over  the  plains.  Upon  reaching  Montana,  he  had  sixty  dollars 
in  greenbacks,  then  worth  fifty  cents  on  the  dollar.  He  turned  his  attention 
to  placer  mining,  with  varying  success,  until  in  1868  he  went  to  Salmon  City 
and  Leesburg,  Idaho,  where  for  a  time  he  conducted  a  general  retail  store.  In 
1879  he  began  in  the  upper  Salmon  River  country  both  mining  and  smelting. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Salmon  River  Mining  and  Smelting  Com- 
pany, with  works  at  Clayton,  Idaho;  among  his  partners  being  the  Omaha 
and  Grant  Smelting  Company,  operators.  Since  that  time  up  to  his  demise, 
he  was  very  prominently  identified  with  the  mining  and  stock-raising  business 
of  Idaho,  Utah,  Nevada  and  Mexico,  and  his  reputation  for  honesty  and  integ- 
rity of  purpose  was  second  to  none  in  the  inter-mountain  region.  He  was  a  suc- 
cessful operator  in  the  live-stock  business,  having  built  up  the  largest  sheep- 
ranching  business  in  the  United  States,  operating  in  the  States  of  Idaho  and 
Montana,  as  well  as  being  the  principal  owner  in  one  of  the  largest  cattle 
ranches  in  the  world,  the  latter  located  in  the  State  of  Chihuahua,  Mexico.  He 
was  also  instrumental  in  the  development  of  the  great  oil  fields  in  southern 
California.  Mr.  Wood  also  operated  a  canning  factory  in  Utah,  and  was 
prominently  and  actively  connected  with  many  of  the  best  Utah  and  Nevada 
mines,  and  was  a  factor  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  great  inter-mountain  region, 
of  which  he  can  truly  be  called  one  of  the  history-makers  and  a  real  pioneer. 

Mr.  Wood  was  married  in  1872,  and  had  a  family  of  two  sons  and  one 
daughter.  His  widow,  Catharine  Wood,  is  a  lady  of  charming  manner  and 
unostentatious.  She  has  seen  all  the  rigors  and  hardships  which  only  early 
pioneering  in  the  West  could  afford.  She  is  widely  and  favorably  known  and 
esteemed  all  through  the  inter-mountain  region,  where  she  has  a  host  of  friends. 

355 


JOHN   JUDGE,  DECEASED 


JOHN  JUDGE  (Deceased) 

The  late  John  Judge  was  one  of  the  most  remarkably  successful 
mining  men  that  ever  came  to  Utah.  He  was  also  one  of  the  best  liked 
and  most  popular  men  to  be  found  anywhere  in  the  inter-mountain 
country.  His  demise  was  much  lamented  by  all  who  were  fortunate 
enough  to  know  him.  He  was  a  kind-hearted,  generous,  upright,  honest 
man,  whom  everybody  loved  and  respected.  He  led  an  active  life  and 
was  one  of  Utah's  foremost  and  useful  citizens.  He  died  September 
14,  1892,  at  the  height  of  his  success,  and  but  forty-seven  years  of  age. 

John  Judge  was  a  native  of  Ireland,  a  son  of  John  and  Annie 
Judge,  and  was  born  in  County  Sligo,  in  1845.  He  came  to  America 
when  an  infant,  and  his  early  years  were  spent  in  Essex  County,  New 
York  State,  being  educated  in  the  common  schools  there.  His  parents 
were  successful  farmers,  and  farming  and  mining  were  the  vocations 
he  was  naturally  inclined  to  follow.  Therefore,  at  fourteen  years  of 
age  he  began  work  in  the  mines,  and  lived  at  Black  Brook  until  he 
was  eighteen.  He  then  enlisted  in  the  Union  army,  as  a  private  in 
Co.  K.,  Second  Kegiment,  New  York  Volunteer  Cavalry,  otherwise 
known  as  "The  Empire  Light  Cavalry."  He  served  a  little  over 
two  years,  being  wounded  and  a  prisoner  for  eight  months  in  Shreve- 
port,  Louisiana,  and  in  Taylor,  Texas. 

Just  after  the  war  Mr.  Judge  was  married  at  Port  Henry,  on 
November  25,  1867,  to  Miss  Mary  Harney,  and  to  them  were  born  five 
children;  namely,  Mrs.  W.  M.  O'Brien,  Mrs.  T.  A.  Baldwin,  Jr.,  Mrs. 
J.  E.  Woodward,  Miss  Katherine  Judge,  and  J.  Frank  Judge. 

In  April,  1876,  Mr.  Judge  arrived  in  Utah,  and  for  a  time  was  a 
guard  at  the  penitentiary,  which  position  in  those  days  required  a  man 
of  nerve  and  daring.  Later  he  became  a  miner  at  Wood  Eiver,  Idaho. 
Returning  to  Utah,  he  went  to  Park  City,  where  he  prospected  and 
worked  upon  some  of  the  most  valuable  properties  there,  including  the 
Daly  mine.  Mr.  Judge  was  one  of  the  original  lessees  of  the  May- 
flower, from  which  the  profit  w'as  placed  to  purchase  the  Silver  King 
claims.  When  the  Silver  King  Mining  Company  was  organized,  Mr. 
Judge  was  left  off  the  board  of  directors  at  his  own  request,  he  being 
in  poor  health  at  that  time.  The  Judge  estate  became  rich  through  the 
Silver  King  mine.  His  widow  and  family  reside  in  a  handsome  resi- 
dence on  East  South  Temple  Street,  Salt  Lake  City. 


357 


JAMES  HOGLE,  DECEASED 


JAMES  HOGLE   (Deceased) 

The  late  James  Hogle  was  one  of  Utah's  most  prominent  citizens 
and  was  honored  and  respected  by  all  who  had  the  good  fortune  to 
have  his  friendship  and  acquaintance.  Mr.  Hogle  was  widely  known 
in  the  inter-mountain  States  and  counted  as  his  friends  the  best  ele- 
ment of  citizenship  in  that  section  of  the  country.  He  was  born  at 
Armaugh,  Ireland,  October  15th,  1838. 

When  but  six  years  of  age  his  parents  moved  to  Quebec,  Canada, 
where  the  boy  was  sent  to  a  French  school  until  he  was  15  years  of 
age.  Then  the  family  removed  to  Illinois  where  they  resided  until 
1859,  when  the  Colorado  gold  excitement  broke  out  and  young  Hogle, 
then  about  20  years  old,  was  stricken  with  the  gold  fever  and  joined 
the  rush  to  Pike's  Peak.  He  was  a  member  of  a  party  that  started 
from  Illinois.  Most  of  them  grew  tired  of  the  hardships  of  travel 
before  the  ox  teams  reached  St.  Joseph,  but  young  Hogle  resolutely 
kept  on,  driving  a  yoke  of  oxen  and  a  mule  on  the  wagon  in  which  he 
had  his  earthly  possessions.  Only  two  others  of  the  original  party 
stuck,  and  they  were  all  that  remained  when  they  reached  Denver 
which  at  that  time  was  merely  a  cluster  of  roughly  built  houses  and 
no  one  had  any  idea  that  it  was  the  beginning  of  a  great  city.  Mr. 
Hogle  remained  in  Denver  four  years  and  acted  as  bookkeeper  for  a 
mercantile  house  and  resided  with  a  French  family  there. 

In  1863  the  gold  craze  again  seized  him  and  he  pushed  on  to  Vir- 
ginia City,  Montana,  where  he  did  mining  in  Alder  Gulch.  He  first 
came  to  Salt  Lake  in  1864  and  in  the  spring  of  1865  went  to  Helena, 
Mont.,  and  then  to  the  gold  placer  grounds  of  Loon  Creek,  Idaho;  he 
returned  to  Salt  Lake  in  1871,  determined  to  make  it  his  permanent 
home,  and  the  following  year  entered  business  in  partnership  with 
James  T.  Clasby,  which  continued  successfully  for  several  years. 
Upon  the  dissolution  of  the  firm  he  entered  into  partnership  with  his 
brother  Owen,  and  built  up  a  profitable  business.  Mr.  Hogle  was  an 
intimate  personal  friend  of  the  late  Marcus  Daly,  who  repeatedly  tried 
to  induce  him  to  go  to  Butte  to  enter  business,  but  Mr.  Hogle  had 
formed  a  deep  attachment  for  his  adopted  city  and  refused  to  leave 
it.  Marcus  Daly  and  James  Hogle  were  friends  when  neither  had 
much,  and  the  friendship  ripened  as  they  both  amassed  wealth.  Mr. 
Hogle  through  his  mining  interests  and  fortunate  investments  was 
able  to  amass  a  substantial  fortune  which  enabled  him  to  retire  from 
active  business,  which  he  intrusted  to  younger  hands,  and  during  the 
four  years  preceding  his  death  spent  his  time  in  travel  and  recre- 
ation. 

At  the  time  of  his  demise  Mr.  Hogle  was  sixty-nine  years  old.  He 
was  sincerely  mourned  by  all  who  knew  him  for  his  lovable  disposition, 
charitable  nature  and  extreme  generosity.  Mr.  Hogle  was  married 
to  Miss  Ida  Elizabeth  King  in  1873,  who  survives  him.  One  son, 
James  A.  Hogle,  was  born  to  them.  He  is  now  a  mining  engineer  of 
Salt  Lake  City. 

359 


H.  P.  HENDERSON,  DECEASED 


HENRY  PARRY  HENDERSON  (Deceased) 

Henry  Parry  Henderson  was  born  September  22,  1843,  in  Otisco, 
Onondaga  County,  New  York,  his  father  being  Parry  Henderson  and 
his  mother  Huldah  Christian.  While  he  was  quite  young  his  parents 
moved  to  Michigan  and  he  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Mason,  the  high  school  of  Lansing,  and  the  Agricultural  College  at 
Lansing.  He  came  to  Utah  in  August,  1886,  and  was  an  accomplished 
lawyer  at  that  time,  though  his  only  attendance  at  law  school  was  con- 
fined to  a  short  period  at  Ann  Arbor.  He  acquired  his  legal  education 
by  reading  law  in  the  offices  of  experienced  lawyers,  and  always  argued 
that  it  was  the  best  way  for  a  young  man  to  obtain  legal  learning. 

Mr.  Henderson  held  the  office  of  county  clerk  of  Ingham  County, 
Michigan,  was  clerk  of  the  supreme  court  of  Michigan  two  years, 
prosecuting  attorney  of  Ingham  County  two  years,  and  served  as  a 
member  of  the  Michigan  legislature  in  1879.  He  was  elected  mayor  of 
Mason,  county  seat  of  Ingham  County,  and  during  Cleveland's  admin- 
istration he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Territorial  Supreme  Court 
of  Utah.  He  married  about  this  time,  and  two  children  born  to  them 
died  when  very  young.  Mrs.  Henderson  has  been  a  leading  person- 
ality in  Salt  Lake  society  ever  since  she  came  here  and  is  still  promi- 
nent. She  is  a  lady  of  pleasing  personality,  and  very  popular. 

In  addition  to  the  great  law  practice  which  Judge  Henderson 
established  in  Utah  after  his  advent  here,  he  acquired  holding's  in 
many  of  the  big  mining  properties  of  the  State.  He  possessed  social 
qualities  highly  developed  and  was  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club,  the 
University  Club  and  the  Salt  Lake  Commercial  Club. 

Judge  Henderson  was  a  Democrat  all  his  life.  He  served  as  a 
member  of  the  city  board  of  education  from  January  1,  1899,  to 
January  1,  1901.  January  1,  1903,  he  was  again  returned  and  served 
continuously  until  his  death,  being  elevated  to  the  presidency  of  the 
board  on  January  1,  1908,  his  term  to  expire  January  1,  1911. 

At  death  lie  was  the  head  of  the  legal  firm  of  Henderson,  Pierce, 
Critchlow  and  Barrette,  composed  of  H.  P.  Henderson,  Frank  Pierce,  E. 
B.  Critchlow  and  W.  J.  Barrette.  It  was  one  of  the  strongest  legal  firms 
in  the  State,  and  enjoyed  an  extensive  clientele  in  adjoining  States. 

Judge  Henderson  died  June  3,  1909,  of  pneumonia,  at  his  resi- 
dence at  No.  32  Fifth  East  Street,  after  an  illness  of  nearly  a  month's 
duration.  In  his  death  Salt  Lake  lost  one  of  her  most  distinguished 
and  patriotic  citizens. 


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DAVID    TALK,    DECEASED 


David  Falk  was  born  in  Eggenhausen,  Bavaria,  Germany,  on 
December  18,  1834.  In  1850  lie  came  to  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire, 
where  he  clerked  in  the  store  of  Bhimauer  &  Dottenheim.  In  1859  he 
crossed  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  and  opened  a  store  at  the  mouth  of 
Sandy,  near  Portland.  In  1862  he  moved  to  Dalles,  where  he  became 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Block  &  Co. 

Mr.  Falk  came  to  Boise  in  1864,  when  he  and  Mr.  Block  became 
members  of  the  firm  of  Hessberg  &  Co.,  who  afterwards  sold  out  to 
Falk  and  Kraemer.  He  commenced  the  present  business  with  his 
brother,  Nathan,  in  the  fall  of  1868,  under  the  firm  name  of  D.  Falk 
&  Bro.,  and  was  continuously  connected  with  the  business,  having  been 
one  of  the  directors  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

In  1866  at  Strasburg,  Germany,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Ernestine 
Weil,  who,  together  with  four  children,  Leo  F.,  Henry,  Mrs.  Julius 
Steinmeir  of  Boise,  and  Mrs.  E.  E.  Manheim  of  Fresno,  California, 
survive  him.  He  is  also  survived  by  a  brother,  Sigmund  Falk,  and  two 
sisters,  Mrs.  H.  Seller  ofrBoke_£nd  Mrs.  M.  Stark  of  Bavaria,  Ger- 
many. Isncroff: 

Mr.  Falk  devoted  no  little  of  his  time  and  a  great  deal  of  his  money 
to  mining,  one  of  his  ventures  in  the  Wood  River  country  having  cost 
him  a  fortune.  He  erected  the  first  smelter  in  Idaho,  in  Wood  River, 
in  1881.  He  was  also  largely  interested  in  the  development  of  Atlanta, 
having  been  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Petitt  mine.  Mr.  Falk  was  one 
of  those  who  had  unbounded  faith  in  the  resources  of  his  State,  to  the 
development  of  which  he  gave  the  best  years  of  his  life.  When  he  had 
done  he  had  demonstrated  possibilities  that  others  were  not  slow  to  see, 
and  they  took  up  the  labors  where  he  had  been  forced  to  suspend  his 
operations  and,  profiting  by  the  results  of  his  energy,  in  numerous 
instances  were  able  to  add  many  thousands  of  dollars  to  the  wealth  of 
Idaho.  Mr.  Falk  was  ever  ready  to  show  his  faith  in  the  State  of  his 
choice  by  his  acts,  and  until  sickness  overtook  him  and  compelled  him 
to  retire,  he  was  actively  interested  in  various  matters  in  addition  to 
the  great  mercantile  establishment  he  had  founded. 

During  his  long  and  useful  career  he  held  the  confidence  and  high 
esteem  of  all  those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact,  either  in  a  business 
or  social  way.  Mr.  Falk  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Fraternity, 
the  Pioneer  Society,  and  a  charter  member  of  the  Boise  Relief  Societv. 


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NATHAN  FALK,  BOISE 


NATHAN  FALK  (Deceased) 

History  shows  that  in  every  family,  in  every  community,  and  in  every 
subdivision  of  our  social  state,  there  is  a  leader,  one  who  plans  and  executes 
ideas  beneficial  to  the  welfare  of  the  family  or  community  in  which  he  is  inter- 
ested. Such  a  man  and  such  a  leader  was  Nathan  Falk  to  the  city  of  Boise. 

Nathan  Falk  was  born  in  Eggenhausen,  Bavaria,  in  the  year  1848.  He 
came  to  the  United  States  when  a  lad  of  fifteen  years.  He  spent  a  short  time 
in  New  York  City,  but  soon  took  passage  for  San  Francisco,  by  way  of  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama.  He  spent  a  little  time  in  San  Francisco,  Portland  and 
The  Dalles,  Oregon,  but  the  spring  of  1864  found  him  in  Boise,  which  was  his 
home  from  that  day  to  the  day  of  his  death,  July  22d,  1903.  Boise  in  those 
days  was  a  small  village,  the  trading  point  for  Boise  basin  mines.  It  was  due 
to  the  foresight,  the  untiring  energy  and  the  business  ability  of  such  men  as 
Nathan  Falk  that  Boise  is  to-day  the  capital  and  metropolis  of  the  State  of 
Idaho,  and  the  finest  and  most  progressive  city  of  its  size  in  the  United  States. 
Many  were  the  hardships  endured  by  those  early  pioneers,  and  their  experi- 
ences during  their  overland  trips  to  and  from  the  markets  would  fill  many  a 
volume. 

Nathan  Falk  was  a  man  who  took  a  large  interest  in  public  matters,  and, 
while  never  in  politics,  was  ever  ready  to  give  up  his  time  for  the  public  good. 
A  natural-born  merchant,  possessing  a  sense  of  justice  and  philanthropy  that 
is  given  to  but  few  men,  he  soon  rose  to  control  the  largest  business  in  the 
State  of  Idaho.  For  many  years  he  directed  the  course  of  the  Falk  Mercantile 
Company,  and  the  indelible  impress  of  his  personality  to-day,  six  years  after 
his  death,  still  dominates  the  policies  pursued  by  the  great  company  which 
bears  his  name.  His  was  a  simple  creed,  "Do  unto  others  as  you  would  have 
others  do  unto  you,  and, do  it  now."  His  sterling  integrity,  keen  foresight  and 
executive  ability  made  hosts  of  friends  for  him,  and  his  advice  was  eagerly 
sought  by  rich  and  poor  alike,  and  given  as  freely  and  honestly  to  one  as  to 
the  other.  His  life  was  one  of  unselfish  devotion  to  his  family,  and  his  sons 
are  to-day  following  in  the  footsteps  of  their  father,  and  taking  an  active 
and  leading  interest  in  the  Falk  Company. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  the  "Daily  Statesman,"  the  leading  paper  of 
Idaho,  said: 

"By  the  untimely  death  of  Nathan  Falk,  this  city  and  the  State  of  Idaho 
sustain  a  loss  so  great  that  it  seems  almost  irreparable.  No  city  can  afford  to 
lose  such  a  man,  and  the  'Statesman'  voices  a  universal  sentiment  in  saying 
there  are  few,  if  any  others,  whose  death  would  create  such  a  void.  Yesterday 
was  a  day  of  mourning  throughout  the  entire  city,  for  all  our  people  loved  the 
dead  merchant,  and  all  feel  a  sense  of  personal  loss  in  his  taking-off.  Nathan 
Falk  was  a  model  man  of  business,  a  model  husband  and  father,  a  model  mem- 
ber of  society.  There  is  no  point  at  which  one  can  touch  his  character  and 
disclose  a  flaw." 


365 


W.   S.   GODBE,  DECEASED 


WILLIAM  S.  GODBE    (Deceased) 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  London,  England,  June  26,  1833.  He  was  as  a 
boy,  bright,  sensitive  and  brave,  and  while  yet  a  child  took  in  a  belief  that  his  own  coun- 
try was  the  greatest  in  the  world,  because  his  forefathers  had,  while  maintaining  them- 
selves against  the  world,  subdued  themselves  and  disciplined  themselves  until  order  with 
them  was  a  rule,  and  obedience  to  law  a  duty  which  might  not  be  avoided.  At  the  same 
time  he  discerned  that,  throughout  all  the  mutations  of  the  centuries,  the  one  paramount 
thought  that  had  become  fixed  in  every  English  mind  was  that  the  freedom  of  the  citi- 
zen, and  his  inherent  right  to  do  any  legitimate  thing,  that  is,  anything  which  did  not 
trench  upon  the  rights  of  his  fellow-men  or  the  rights  of  society,  was  an  inalienable  birth- 
right. 

It  was  at  a  time  when  England  had  just  begun  her  mighty  expansion.  Her  triumphs, 
first  under  the  battle  canopy  of  Trafalgar,  then  at  Waterloo;  her  lead  in  the  manufactures 
of  the  world;  her  possession  of  more  ships  and  money  than  half  the  world  outside,  were 
all  witnesses  of  a  measureless  power  and  incentive  for  all  Englishmen  to  make  the  utmost 
exertion  for  wealth  and  place.  Then  in  his  childhood,  the  genius  of  that  mighty  array  of 
British  intellectual  lights,  Scott,  Burns,  Byron,  Macaulay,  Keats,  Coleridge,  Campbell, 
and  the  others,  had  just  attained  full  voice,  and  the  first  splendors  of  the  Victorian  era 
were  shining  about  him.  No  wonder  that  an  eager,  alert  soul  like  his  should  be  sur- 
charged with  ambition  and  enthusiasm. 

While  yet  a  youth,  he  determined  to  take  in  the  world  and  so  bound  himself  to  a 
ship  company,  and  when  he  sailed  on  his  first  voyasre  his  soul  was  in  full  accord  with  the 
wild  winds  above  and  the  never  resting  sea  that  rolled  around  him.  In  early  youth  he  has 
read  all  the  classics,  and  as  he  sailed  from  his  native  shore,  he  exulted  in  the  thought 
that  the  life  he  had  chosen  would  lead  him  to  the  lands  where  those  who  had  shaken  the 
world  in  the  long  ago,  the  heroes,  the  orators,  the  poets,  the  artists  of  the  early  ages,  had 
lived,  and  wrought,  and  died. 

Then  the  question  of  the  Turk  and  Greek  was  stirring  the  world.  Byron,  an  Eng- 
lishman, had  just  died  in  an  effort  to  help  the  latter  nation,  that  nation  around  which 
so  much  glory  lingers.  So  he  visited  the  Grecian  isles,  spent  a  good  while  in  Constanti- 
nople, went  over  to  southern  Russia  and  up  the  Danube,  then  across  to  Egypt,  along 
northern  Africa,  across  to  Brazil,  then,  returning,  took  in  northern  Europe.  His  journeys 
were  continuous  studies;  as  he  neared  a  coast,  all  that  was  famous  in  the  history  of  that 
coast  was  familiar  to  his  mind,  and  the  voyage  was  but  a  postgraduate  course  in  which  to 
complete  his  studies.  He  spent  a  good  deal  of  time  in  France,  Germany  and  Denmark.  He 
was  more  than  once  shipwrecked.  In  those  years  he  took  in  more  information  than  he 
could  have  gained  in  half  a  century  on  shore,  and  the  discipline  he  underwent,  in  after  life, 
made  difficulties  which  would  have  baffled  the  ordinary  man  seem  but  trifles  to  him. 

At  the  same  time,  a  life  at  sea  grew,  after  a  long  experience,  irksome.  It  was  hitch- 
ing a  blood  horse  to  a  whim  and  driving  him  in  a  circle  day  after  day,  when  his  real 
nature  was  to  go  out  and,  through  campaigns  that  taxed  all  his  energies  and  strength, 
win  his  conquests.  He  was  on  the  swift  road  to  become  a  captain  and  to  sail  his  own 
ship,  but  that  meant  simply  an  enlarged  sphere;  the  old,  narrow  routine  would  still  have 
been  his,  when  he  held  in  thought  the  whole  world  and  its  possibilities  for  him.  But  who 
can  estimate  what  the  discipline  of  the  sea  was  to  him  in  after  life  ? 

He  returned  to  England  and  completed  his  apprenticeship  in  a  ship-chandler's  office. 
That  for  him  consisted  mostly  of  heavy  physical  labor,  the  dragging  of  ship  stores  to 
ships  along  the  docks. 

While  thus  engaged  he  one  day  heard  the  preaching  of  a  Mormon  elder.  Here  was 
something  new — an  appeal  for  a  return  to  primitive  Christianity.  The  imagination  of 
young  Godbe  was  at  once  enlisted.  Before,  his  vision  had  been  confined  to  this  world; 
now  he  took  in  both  heaven  and  earth.  He  at  once  procured  some  Mormon  books  and  the 
writings  of  Parley  Pratt  kindled  a  new  flame  in  his  soul.  He  became  a  convert,  attended 
the  Mormon  meetings,  "bore  his  testimony"  with  passionate  fervor,  for  at  the  time  he 
hailed  the  new  faith  as  a  miracle  wrought  for  man's  salvation,  and  his  youthful  fancy 
surrounded  it  with  all  the  splendor  of  that  light  which  comes  from  the  celestial  chambers, 
wiiere  divine  light  is  brewed. 

Then  the  martyr's  spirit  absorbed  him;  the  glory  that  was  to  be  in  founding  and 
building  up  his  faith  in  the  wilderness  of  America  engrossed  him,  and  he  sailed  from  his 
native  land  to  join  the  work. 

He  left  London  as  a  sailor,  and,  reaching  New  York,  he  had  onlv  what  money  he /had 
earned  on  the  voyage.  He  struck  out  on  foot  for  Utah.  He  walked  to  Buffalo,  then 
worked  his  passage  on  a  boat  to  Chicago,  then  again  started  on  foot  and  walked  to  the 
frontier,  where  he  obtained  employment  in  a  train  loaded  with  merchandise  for  Salt  Lake 
in  1851. 


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He  engaged  in  business  with  a  merchant,  Mr.  Thomas  S.  Williams,  and  in  a  few  years, 
by  incessant  industry  and  through  that  courage  of  his  which  never  faltered,  amassed  a 
comfortable  fortune. 

in  those  early  days  a  man  who  understood  the  needs  of  the  city,  and  who  likewise 
understood  the  art  of  purchasing  the  best  goods  at  the  lowest  prices,  was  essential  in  Salt 
Lake,  and  Mr.  Godbe  was  exactly  the  man  for  the  place. 

So  he  made  annual  journeys  East,  to  purchase  his  own  goods,  and  to  act  as  the  com- 
mercial agent  of  the  people.  The  day  of  his  starting  was  advertised  annually,  and  then 
for  days  his  office  was  thronged  with  men  and  women  from  all  over  the  Territory  giving 
their  individual  commission  for  him  to  fill,  and  in  the  autumns  when  the  trains  arrived 
with  these  goods,  the  rush  for  them  made  a  periodical  sensation. 

Before  the  completion  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  Mr.  Godbe  had  crossed  the  plains 
twenty-four  times  to  the  Missouri  River,  besides  making  several  trips  to  California  by  the 
northern,  central  and  southern  routes.  These  trips  he  made  by  horseback  generally,  but 
always  by  his  own  conveyance,  and  in  some  instances  only  one  man  accompanied  him. 
Tliis  was  when  the  Indians  were  bad,  and  he  deemed  it  safer  to  travel  without  attract- 
ing too  much  attention.  He  also  crossed  the  Atlantic  seventeen  times. 

Mr.  Godbe,  too,  was  the  first  man  in  Utah  to  bring  down  the  price  of  merchandise, 
adding  but  a  reasonable  percentage  to  cost  and  freight. 

As  his  fortune  accumulated  he  built  the  Godbe  Building,  corner  of  First  South  and 
Main  Streets,  which,  with  Mr.  William  Jennings'  emporium  across  the  street,  were  really 
the  first  substantial  buildings  erected  in  the  city.  The  WTalker  Bros,  store,  corner  of  Second 
South  and  Main,  was  soon  after  erected. 

By  his  enterprise  and  generosity  and  public  spirit,  Mr.  Godbe  had  drawn  to  him  the 
affections  of  thousands  of  people  and  the  good  will  of  all  the  rest.  But  he  had  at  the 
same  time  become  disillusioned  regarding  many  things  in  relation  to  the  church  to  which  he 
had  devoted  his  life.  He  found  that  it  really  was  a  theocracy  as  implacable  as  fate,  and 
that  its  chiefs  would  brook  no  divided  authority  in  matters  either  spiritual  or  temporal. 
He  thought  of  King  John  and  the  barons,  and  while  his  devotion  to  the  religion  was  as 
sincere  as  ever,  he  revolted  at  the  thought  that  under  the  guise  of  religion  any  man 
should  place  any  other  man's  mind  in  thralldom. 

The  time  had  come  when  Utah  was  falling  behind  because  her  greatest  resource,  her 
mines,  lay  dormant.  The  church  had  discouraged,  almost  or  quite  forbidden  the  Mormon 
people  to  engage  in  mining.  Godbe  believed  this  was  tyranny,  and  he,  with  Mr.  Lawrence 
and  Mr.  Harrison,  determined  to  advocate  mining.  They  had  already  started  a  magazine  to 
begin  to  introduce  a  higher  standard  of  literature  than  had  before  been  encouraged  in 
Utah.  They  at  last  determined  to  publish  in  this  magazine  an  article  advising  the  pursuit 
of  mining. 

This  was  followed  by  a  summons  to  appear  before  "the  high  church  council"  to  show 
why  they  should  not  be  deemed  apostates.  It  was  a  furious  meeting,  and  the  lives  of  the 
men  really  hung  upon  a  thread  while  it  lasted,  so  fierce  did  the  waves  of  fanaticism  roar 
and  rave  about  them. 

But  they  stood  their  ground,  insisting  that,  under  the  laws  of  the  land  and  of  civili- 
zation, and  under  a  fair  interpretation  of  their  creed,  they  had  done  nothing  which  any 
American  and  good  Mormon  had  not  a  right  to  do. 

The  result  was  excommunication  for  them  all,  and,  by  the  persecutions  that  followed, 
a  loss  not  only  of  the  greater  part  of  their  patronage,  but  of  half  their  fortunes. 

But  the  publication  was  kept  up  until  it  was  changed  from  a  magazine  into  the  "Daily 
Tribune."  In  this  effort  toward  a  greater  freedom  for  Utah  Mr.  Godbe  expended  $50,000, 
but  he  never  begrudged  one  cent  of  the  money.  Some  time  the  children  of  the  men  who 
pursued  him  then  will  expend  that  amount  upon  a  monument  to  his  memory.  What  the 
persecution  was  may  be  understood  by  the  fact  that  in  two  years  not  only  was  the  wealthy 
merchant  stranded,  but  left  more  than  $100,000  in  debt. 

Under  that  burden  there  were  only  two  things  left  open  to  him,  either  he  must  leave 
Utah  and  begin  anew  somewhere  else  or  he  must  turn  into  the  mines,  the  opening  of  which 
he  had  advocated  in  the  magazine.  He  chose  the  latter  and,  with  all  the  energy  of  his 
nature,  began  the  work. 

It  was  a  new  occupation ;  to  prosecute  it  on  a  large  scale  special  knowledge  and  much 
money  were  needed,  but  he  did  not  hesitate  a  moment.  For  some  years  he  did  more  than 
any  other  man  to  advertise  and  open  and  work  the  mines,  and  toiled  on  with  unabated 
energy,  confidence  and  enthusiasm,  until  there  came  the  complete  breaking  down  of  his 
health,  and  after  some  months  of  suffering,  his  worn-out  heart  finally  ceased  to  beat. 

To  the  last  he  was  the  friend  and  brother  of  the  Mormon  people.  To  the  last  he  had 
no  meaner  thought  toward  them  than  to  see  them  more  prosperous,  more  enlightened  and 
happier.  For  all  the  wrongs  done  him  he  never  aimed  one  blow  in  retaliation,  he  never 
nursed  one  thought  of  retaliation  or  vengeance. 

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Of  his  mining  career  some  items  are  of  public  interest.  In  1865  news  reached  Salt 
Lake  that  gold  had  been  discovered  in  the  Sweetwater  region  in  Wyoming.  He  was  among 
the  first  to  respond.  There  was  no  railroad  in  the  West  then.  He  secured  deeds  or  options 
on  some  claims;  he  went  to  San  Francisco,  bought  the  first  quartz  mill  that  was  ever 
sent  to  Wyoming,  shipped  it  by  sea  to  San  Pedro,  and  then  hauled  it  by  wagon  via  Salt 
Lake  to  Wyoming — more  than  1,200  miles — set  it  up  and  went  to  work. 

In  1871,  he  went  back  to  his  native  city,  organized  the  "Chicago  Silver  Mining  Com- 
pany,  Lim."  Returning,  he  opened  and  operated  the  Chicago  and  Queen  of  the  Hills  min- 
ing group  in  Dry  Canyon,  Utah,  near  Stockton,  with  a  capital  of  £75,000  sterling,  the  first 
prominent  mining  company,  save  the  Ontario,  Emma  and  Flagstaff,  in  Utah. 

He  erected  a  fifty-ton  lead-smelting  furnace  at  Rush  Lake,  and  later  added  more 
furnaces;  he  gave  employment  to  150  miners  and  smelters  for  years,  and  the  men  needed 
to  supply  2,000  bushels  of  charcoal  to  the  furnaces  daily.  The  company  shipped  over  1,300 
carloads  of  base  (silver-lead)  bullion  to  Eastern  refineries,  of  a  value  of  about  $3,000,000. 

This  company  also  erected  a  wire  tramway,  6,500  feet  long,  in  Dry  Canyon,  with  a 
capacity  of  ten  tons  per  hour,  the  first  Halliday  tramway  erected  in  Utah.  The  smelting 
plant  was  the  first  plant  of  the  kind  in  the  Territory,  and  was  fifty  miles  from  any  rail- 
road. 

In  1877,  negotiating  with  the  Horn  Silver  Mine  at  Frisco,  Utah,  he  erected  a  fifty-ton 
smelter  at  the  mine,  130  miles  from  a  railroad,  for  smelting  the  company's  ores. 

Later  he  bought  other  mines,  notably  the  Cave  mines,  across  the  valley,  east  of 
Milford;  also  the  Carbonate  and  Rattler  mines,  near  Frisco,  on  which  he  erected  a  100-ton 
per  day  concentrating  plant,  and  from  these  shipped  1200  carloads  of  silver-lead  bullion  of 
a  value  of  more  than  $2,500,000.  To  work  the  mines,  mill  and  smelter,  and  to  supply  wood 
and  charcoal,  several  hundred  men  were  given  employment  at  high  wages  for  years. 

In  1879-80  he  organized  the  Bullionville  Smelting  Co.,  and  bought  the  Raymond  & 
Ely  tailing  dump  at  Bullionville,  Nevada,  containing  over  170,000  tons  of  rich  mill  tailings, 
valued  about  $20  a  ton,  and  erected  a  fifty-ton  smelter  and  a  100-ton  capacity  concen- 
trator, and  worked  40,000  tons  of  these  tailings,  producing  in  bank  over  a  million  dollars 
in  silver-lead  bullion.  Here  again  he  employed  many  hundred  workers  and  consumed 
1200  bushels  of  charcoal  a  day.  His  operations  here  were  over  140  miles  away  from 
railroad  facilities,  and  all  hauling  was  done  in  wagons. 

From  1880-1886  he  was  the  mainspring  in  the  work  of  developing  the  gold  placers  of 
Osceola,  White  Pine  County,  Nevada,  150  miles  from  the  railroad,  where  thirty-eight  miles 
of  mountainous  ditches  and  flumes  were  constructed.  The  ranches  were  bought  outright, 
to  get  the  water  needed  to  hydraulic  the  gravel,  which  averaged  about  fifteen  cents  per 
cubic  yard.  This  work  cost  quite  $400,000,  and  was  the  only  enterprise  which  failed  to  be 
profitable.  It  was  a  fight  against  the  desert  just  when  the  late  dry  cycle  was  coming  on  and 
the  desert  won.  Not  enough  water  to  wash  the  gold  from  the  gravel.  All  of  his  other  enter- 
prises were  brought  to  successful  terminations. 

In  1882  he  took  hold  of  the  antimony  mines  in  southern  Utah,  160  miles  from  the 
railroad  at  that  time.  Here  he  pushed  development  to  a  point  of  running  a  forty-ton  con- 
centrator plant,  and  made  star  metal,  shipping  it  by  ox  teams  to  the  railroad. 

His  mining  experiences  in  early  days  covered  Cottonwood,  Bingham,  and  Tintic  dis- 
tricts in  this  State,  and  in  1880  he  became  heavily  interested  in  the  Alice  Mine,  in  Mon- 
tana. In  1885  he  turned  his  attentions  to  the  source  of  the  rich  Bullionville  tailings, 
namely,  at  Pioche,  Nevada,  and  organized  the  Pioche  Consolidated  Mining  and  Smelting 
Co.,  capitalized  for  $5,000,000,  which  acquired  the  famous  Raymond  &  Ely,  Meadow  Valley, 
and  most  of  the  other  mines  in  that  celebrated  district,  and  later  those  at  Jack  Rabbit  and 
other  surrounding  districts.  He  readily  saw  that  the  millions  of  dollars  contained  in  these 
mines  could  be  profitably  extracted  with  railroad  facilities,  and  got  the  Union  Pacific  Rail- 
road Co.  to  build  a  grade  from  Milford,  Utah,  to  Pioche,  Nevada,  a  distance  of  140  miles, 
but  owing  to  the  great  panic  of  1893,  the  rails  were  never  laid  until  the  last  few  years. 

This  company  employed  hundreds  of  men  for  several  years,  erected  smelting  works, 
concentrating  works,  and  a  large  milling  plant,  built  a  narrow-gauge  railroad,  twenty  miles 
long,  and  distributing  a  large  fortune  among  the  people  of  that  section. 

Early  in  1902  he  was  stricken  with  a  fatal  illness,  and  on  the  1st  of  August  that 
year,  he  died. 

The  foregoing  is  a  brief  synopsis  of  the  life  of  a  man  who  from  boyhood  to  the  day 
that  the  lights  of  earth  went  out  for  him — more  than  half  a  century — toiled  incessantly, 
toiled  only  with  high  purposes  and  in  the  hope  of  making  all  around  him  happy,  of 
seeing  his  fellow  men  of  all  stations  in  a  way  to  make  them  happier,  which  path  through 
life  was  lined  by  generous  deeds;  who  despised  anything  dishonest,  or  petty,  or  mean; 
whose  invincible  spirit  was  never  broken ;  whose  courage  was  never  shaken ;  whose  dreams 
of  good  held  all  his  fellow  men  in  their  scope;  who  loved  life  and  its  enjoyments,  but 
always  made  both  subordinate  to  duty;  who  outlived  the  execrations  of  his  fanatical 
traducers,  and  so  reinstated  himself  that  those  who  had  been  taught  to  believe  he  was 
untrue  gather  tearfully  around  his  bier  and  with  choking  voices  sounded  his  praises.  He 
was  always,  after  1851,  a  tower  of  strength  to  Utah,  and  Utah  people  should  always  hold 
that  his  grave  marks  a  sacred  spot  in  Utah's  soil. 

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PAGE. 

Frontispiece,  Sunset  on  Great  Salt  Lake  -' 

A  Word  in  Advance 3 

ILLUSTRATIONS 

Views  of  Fort  Douglas 4 

Salt  Lake  Newspapers 8 

City  and  County  Building  and  Federal  Building       .        .        .    •    . .      -.        .        .        .        .  10 

Some  Utah  Beauty  Spots 11 

First  Presidency  and  First  and  Present  Governor 12 

Boston  Consolidated  Concentrating  Plant ;  Utah  Copper  Concentrating  Plant  ...  16 

New   Kearns    Building .  18 

Glimpses  at  Local  Coal  Industries 22 

Utah   Fuel  Company . 22 

Independent  Telephone   Company 24 

Utah-Idaho   Sugar   Company 26 

Typical  Salt  Lake  Schools 28 

In  and  Around  Ogden,  Utah 29 

Salt  Lake  Churches  and  Tabernacle 30 

Some  of  Utah's  Best  Crops 32 

Several   Solid  Banking  Houses .        .33 

Some  of  Salt  Lake's  Clubs 34 

Western  Savings  &  Loan  Company  and  P.  W.  Madsen's  Salt  Lake  Business  Houses.        .  36 

Inter-Mountain  Packing  Company 36 

Utah's  Great  Slaughtering  Plant 36 

Salt  Air  Views 37 

Colonel  E.  A.  Wall's  Residence 38 

Glimpses  of  Elegant  Salt  Lake  Homes 39 

Railway   Stations .        .  40 

More   Salt  Lake  Homes 41 

Cobble  Crest 42 

More    Residences 43 

"Pure    Streams" 44 

Busy  Corners  in  a  Busy  City 45 

Keith-O'Brien  Company's  Store  and  Zion's  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution         .        .  46 

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Up-to-date  Business  Houses 48 

Mine  and   Smelter  Supply  Company 49 

Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  Packard  Library 50 

Newhouse  Buildings 51 

Newhouse  Hotel  and  Cullen  Hotel 52 

Rocky  Mountain  Bell  Telephone  Company;  More  Churches 54 

Salt   Lake    Pressed   Brick 56 

Utah's  Educational  Centers 58 

Newly  Constructed  Apartment  Houses 60 

Houston  Real  Estate  Investment  Company 62 

Interior  of  Mine  and  Smelter   Supply  Company  Building  and  of  Utah  Implement  & 

Vehicle    Company 64 

Interior  of  Kenyon  Hotel  and  of  Knutsford  Hotel 65 

Familiar   Scenes  in  Idaho 286 

Wood  Live   Stock  Company 294 

Views  of  Mrs.  E.  Bonnemort's  Ranch 298-299 

Leading  Financial  Institutions  of  Idaho 300 

Chafey  Mines 322 

Nixon  National   Bank 324 

Goldfield    Consolidated   Mining    Company 340 

"The  Honored  Dead" 343 

HISTORICAL  SKETCHES,  ETC. 

Utah,   Past   and    Present 5-7 

Progressive  and  Beautiful  Salt  Lake 9 

Mining  and  its  Successes 13-19 

Irrigation   in    Utah  31-35 

Idaho  283-293 

Nevada 315-321 

BIOGRAPHIES 

Auerbach,  S.  H '.  73 

Bancroft,    W.   H 69 

Bank  of  Nampa 302 

Bartch,  G.  W 183 

Bettles,  A.  J.      .        .        . 257 

Boise    City    National    Bank 301 

Boise  State  Bank 303 

Bonnemort,    Mrs.    E.     (Ranch)               298 

Bradley,  W.  M 255 

Bransford,  John  S.             97 

Burton,  Jos.  F 205 

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Caine,  Hon.  John  T , 147 

Caine,  J.  E 195 

Catrovv,   Henry .        . 261 

Chafey   Mines  322-323 

Chisholm,    W.   W.    (Deceased) 349 

Clark,   H.   P 189 

Colin,  Louis 117 

Critchlow,   E.    B 129 

Cullen    Hotel 53 

Cunningham,  J.  A - 185 

Cutler,  John  C 101 

Cutler,  Thomas  R.             75 

Davis,   J.   R 331 

Deep  Creek  Mining  District 21 

Dern,    John 93 

Doolittle,  C.  H. 165 

Dooly,    John   E 91 

Doremus,  A.  F 115 

Dowlen,  W.  E 339 

Eastman,   H.   B 309 

Eccles,  David 155 

Evans,   David 119 

Evans,  M.  R 253 

Evans,  R.   J 259 

Falk,  David    (Deceased) 363 

Falk,  Nathan    (Deceased) 365 

Farrell,  Will  G 245 

Ferry,   E.   P Ill 

Ferry,    W.    Mont 109 

Forrester,  Robert 179 

Gemmell,  R.  C 279 

Godbe,  W.    S.    (Deceased) 367 

Goldfield  Consolidated  Mining  Company 342 

Gooding,  Frank  R ...  305 

Gordon,   Louis  D 267 

Gridley,  F.  P 107 

ITagenbarth,  Frank  J 181 

Halloran,  W.   J 123 

Harkness,  Martin 221 

Hatch,  Fred  S 275 

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Hawley,  J.  H.      .        .        .        . .        .        .311 

Headlund,    J.    A.        .  - .        .        .177 

Henderson,  H.   P.    (Deceased) 3d 

Hills,    L.    S 67 

Hogle,   James    (Deceased) 35!> 

Holbrook,    Lafayette 157 

Holmes,  G.   S 227 

Houston  Real  Estate  &  Investment  Company 63 

Hubbard,    W.    E .        .251 

Jackling,  D.  C. 89 

Jacobson,  A.  O. .        .        .  163 

Jacobson,    Tony 161 

Jensen,   W.    F.            .        .        . 269 

Joseph,   Harry   S.       . 247 

Judge,   John    (Deceased) 357 

Kearns,    Thomas 77 

Keith,   David 71 

King,  Hon.  W.  H .  •      .        .151) 

Knight,  Jesse 121 

Knox,   Frank 105 

Lee,   E.   O. 243 

Lee,  Frank  Moore 329 

Liljenberg,  N.  E. .        .219 

Lippman,   Joseph 215 

Livingston,  W.  D 213 

Lockhart,   T.   G .333 

Loftus,  J.  P 337 

Loose,   C.   E.  113 

Madsen,  P.  W 237 

Mackenzie,  J.   H .335 

Mackintosh,  R.   (Deceased) 353 

MacVichie,   Duncan 141 

Marcy,  F.  E 249 

McCornick,  W.  S 139 

Mclntyre,    Samuel 135 

Mine  &  Smelter  Supply  Co 49 

Moran,   P.  J .141 

Morgan,    George    W. 1"3 

Moritz,  Jacob 263 

Morrison,   L.  N. 175 

Moyle,  Jas.   H 153 

Murdoch,   J.    D 225 

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Newhouse,    Samuel 85 

Nibley,    Charles  W 99 

Nixon,  Hon.  Geo.  IS '327 

Nixon  National  Bank       . .        .        .        .  325 

Noble,  W.  P 239 

Odell,  Geo.  T 143 

Olmstead,  G.   H 307 

Orem,    W.    C 241 

Park,    Boyd 125 

Payne,    Edward 314 

Pollock,  Jas.  A 229 

Porter,   Sam   S 217 

Powers,   Orlando   W. 137 

Quigley,    Charles   A.          . 199 

Raddatz,   E.   J 149 

Rice,   Windsor  V 169 

Richards,   J.  T ...  167 

Richmond,    Fred    C 235 

Richter,    Adolph 131 

Rocky  Mountain   Bell  Telephone   Company 55 

Roland,   August 273 

Roundy,  John 277 

Salt  Lake  Pressed  Brick  Company 57-61 

Saxman,  C.  W 265 

Scott,  A.  W ...  281 

Sharp,    John 127 

Sharp,  John  C 197 

Silver,   Jos.   A 151 

Snyder,  W.  F. 171 

Spaulding,  Van  D 231 

Stewart,  Charles  B 233 

Sweet,  Arthur   A 271 

Tarbet,  A.  H 203 

Taylor,    H.    P 201 

Thompson,   Ezra 79 

United  States  Smelting  &  Refining  Company 20 

Utah    Fuel    Company 23 

Utah-Idaho    Sugar    Company 27 

Utah   Independent   Telephone   Company 25 

Van    Cott,    Waldeman .        .  209 

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Walker,  D.  F 103 

Walker,   H.    W 193 

Walker,  J.  R.,  Sr.    (Deceased) 345 

Walker,  M.  H 87 

Walker,  S.   S.    (Deceased) 347 

Wallace,    Henry 145 

Webber,  Col.   Thomas  G 83 

Weir,  Thomas 81 

Wells,  Heber  M 95 

Wells,  Jos.  S 207 

Wilfley,  J.  M 211 

Williams,  P.  L 133 

Wilson,  F.  L 187 

Wingfield,  George 341 

Wood,  H.   C 297 

Wood,  J.  D.    (Deceased)           355 

Wood  Live  Stock   Company 295-297 

Yates,  John  E.  .-313 

Young,  Le   Grand 191 

Zion's  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution 47 


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